Haptic Rendering Techniques for Non-Physical, Command Decision Support

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to explore non-traditional visualization techniques to assess threat and other variables in command center settings. Not all entities that a commander interacts in real life can be converted to visual medium, which is but just one of the five senses that we have. As an example, sense of threat during a critical situation during a mission cannot be easily communicated with color. Many special skills such as a surgeon using a sharp scalpel or a Pilot negotiating a sharp curve cannot be easily represented in videos or even real time Virtual Environments. We call such systems non-physical visualization. While elsewhere in this conference we speak about Ontological representation of such events, here some techniques currently underdevelopment to visualize such parameters are presented including tactile and haptic rendering techniques.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Apr 01, 2004
Accession Number
ADA427986

Entities

People

  • James Llinas
  • T. Kesavadas

Organizations

  • University at Buffalo

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Cyber
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Closed Loop Systems
  • Cognitive Workload
  • Command Centers
  • Data Fusion
  • Data Visualization
  • Feedback
  • Haptics
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human-Machine Interaction
  • Models
  • Simulations
  • Three Dimensional
  • Two Dimensional
  • Virtual Reality
  • Visualizations
  • Workload

Readers

  • Computer Vision.
  • Human-Computer Interaction (HCI).
  • Systems Analysis and Design