Evalutation of UML CASE tool with haptics

Mohamad Eid; Atif Alamri; Jamil Melhem; Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

Evalutation of UML CASE tool with haptics

Mohamad Eid, Atif Alamri, Jamil Melhem, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik

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Abstract

Haptics technology has received enormous attention to enhance human computer interaction. Indeed haptics offers a natural user interface based on human gesture system. In this paper, we present a prototype haptic-enabled UML CASE tool that allows software engineering developers to intuitively interact and touch the modeling elements of the tool and feel the force feedback. The tool uses the Omni Phantom device, a common single-point of interaction haptic device. We performed a usability study to compare the haptic-based approach against the traditional mousebased approach. Even though some users expressed the tiresome of using the haptic device, the study demonstrated the potential of incorporating the haptic modality in UML development tools in terms of user involvement, socialism, and motivation.

Original language	English (US)
State	Published - Feb 14 2008
Event	2008 1st Ambi-Sys Workshop on Haptic User Interfaces in Ambient Media Systems, HAS 2008 - Quebec City, Canada Duration: Feb 11 2008 → Feb 14 2008

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Other	2008 1st Ambi-Sys Workshop on Haptic User Interfaces in Ambient Media Systems, HAS 2008
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Quebec City
Period	2/11/08 → 2/14/08

Keywords

Eclipse
HAML
Haptic
Haptic devices
UML
UML CASE Tools
XML

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Human-Computer Interaction
Software
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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