| Haptic Driven Procedural Guidance and Training | |
| •Haptics refers to sensing
and manipulation through touch enabling the user to feel
virtual reality or an existing distant object indirectly.
•A glove or a robotic mechanical assembly (haptic device) allows you feel the virtual reality object on screen. |
(Graphic from http://immersive.com) |
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•Haptics
also provide force feedback to humans interacting with virtual or remote
environments.
••Haptics not only provides a sense of touch and can also be used to guide a student's hand to perform a pre-set movement. |
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 Current simulator setup.
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•Simulators
using haptics are standard in Aerospace, Aviation, the Armed Forces
and in a variety of training areas in Medicine.
•The
addition of haptics to dental simulators is very important since it
allows trainees the ability to feel what the instructor is feeling.
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 Holding the Haptic Device Stylus |
 Creating a transparent view |
 Currently available instruments |
A suspended in space, 3D object, can be
created for direct interaction with and felt by the trainee.
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