Can You Feel the Force? An Investigation of Haptic Collaboration in ...

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Can You Feel the Force? An Investigation of Haptic Collaboration in Shared Editors Ian Oakley, Stephen Brewster and Philip Gray Glasgow Interactive Systems Group, Department of Computing Science University of Glasgow, Glasgow, G12 8QQ, UK +44 (0) 141 330 3541 io, stephen, pdg@dcs.gla.ac.uk http://www.dcs.gla.ac.uk/~stephen Abstract Users of collaborative systems are typically restricted to communication through voice and video links. Users find this difficult – it does not encompass the richness of communication they are accustomed to in the real world. Attempting to address this problem we describe the implementation of a novel mechanism for haptic communication based around interactions between users’ cursors. An initial, and mainly observational, evaluation is described, along with some promising results. We show improvements in subjective experience and suggest several, more formal, avenues for future research. 1. Introduction With the advent of the World Wide Web (WWW), distributed, collaborative technologies have begun to gather momentum. Real-time collaborative tools are becoming more common, and there is growing acceptance that such tools may be able to reduce travel costs and facilitate group and team based work. However, these systems still face problems. Crucially, the communication that takes place between users does not reflect the richness of communication in the real world. Even assuming high quality video and audio links,

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