TY - GEN
T1 - HAMLAT
T2 - 6th International Conference on Haptics: Perception, Devices and Scenarios, EuroHaptics 2008
AU - Eid, Mohamad
AU - Andrews, Sheldon
AU - Alamri, Atif
AU - El Saddik, Abdulmotaleb
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
N2 - Haptic applications have received enormous attention in the last decade. Nonetheless, the diversity of haptic interfaces, virtual environment modeling, and rendering algorithms have made the development of hapto-visual applications a tedious and time consuming task that requires significant programming skills. To tackle this problem, we present a HAML-based Authoring Tool (HAMLAT), an authoring tool based on the HAML description language that allows users to render the graphics and haptics of a virtual environment with no programming skills. The modeler is able to export the developed application in a standard HAML description format. The proposed system comprises three components: the authoring tool (HAMLAT), the HAML engine, and the HAML player. The tool is implemented by extending the 3D Blender modeling platform to support haptic interaction. The demonstrated tool proves the simplicity and efficiency of prototyping haptic applications for non-programmer developers or artists.
AB - Haptic applications have received enormous attention in the last decade. Nonetheless, the diversity of haptic interfaces, virtual environment modeling, and rendering algorithms have made the development of hapto-visual applications a tedious and time consuming task that requires significant programming skills. To tackle this problem, we present a HAML-based Authoring Tool (HAMLAT), an authoring tool based on the HAML description language that allows users to render the graphics and haptics of a virtual environment with no programming skills. The modeler is able to export the developed application in a standard HAML description format. The proposed system comprises three components: the authoring tool (HAMLAT), the HAML engine, and the HAML player. The tool is implemented by extending the 3D Blender modeling platform to support haptic interaction. The demonstrated tool proves the simplicity and efficiency of prototyping haptic applications for non-programmer developers or artists.
KW - 3D modeling
KW - HAML
KW - Haptic authoring tools
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U2 - 10.1007/978-3-540-69057-3_108
DO - 10.1007/978-3-540-69057-3_108
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:54249105424
SN - 3540690565
SN - 9783540690566
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 857
EP - 866
BT - Haptics
Y2 - 10 June 2008 through 13 June 2008
ER -