Immersive Haptic Authoring: Creating Haptic Experiences On-Demand within VR through Direct Manipulation

Anonymous

Keywords: virtual reality, haptics, design process

TL;DR: Introducing the concept of immersive haptic authoring where designers prototype VR haptics within VR, and an analysis of the concept through expert interviews.

Abstract: This paper presents immersive haptic authoring, a novel way to author haptic experiences within VR. Designing haptics to create rich VR experiences is becoming increasingly common, yet designers lack the tools to iteratively design, experience, and test such experiences easily. Designing haptics using desktop tools is a slow, distracting and unintuitive process. To address this, we introduce immersive haptic authoring, a new approach that allows the haptic designer to map, program, and modify haptic experiences within VR through direct and spatial manipulation, which can support rapid iteration and exploration of new haptic experiences. In this paper, we develop a system to demonstrate the concept and present insights from a qualitative evaluation session with experts. The result suggest that our approach has many benefits including better design exploration, time efficiency, and provides immersive design interactions, which together provide us insights for the future of VR haptics authoring tools.

Track: HCI/visualization