Katib: Haptic-visual guidance for handwriting

Georgios Korres, Mohamad Eid

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Abstract

Haptic-visual guidance is shown to improve handwriting. This work presents a platform named KATIB (writer in Arabic) to support multi-stroke handwriting using haptic-visual guidance. A rotating neodymium magnet mounted onto a 2 DoF parallel robot underneath the writing surface is proposed to improve the fidelity of haptic guidance and mechanically decouple the stylus. The stylus utilizes stackable magnets to intensify magnetic forces. Full and partial haptic guidance methods are developed and evaluated. The current implementation demonstrates sufficient workspace of 80 mm × 60 mm and a perceivable (tangential) guidance force of 0.4 N. Magnetostatic analysis is conducted to study the effects of friction and tilting on the rendered force.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationHaptics
Subtitle of host publicationScience, Technology, Applications - 12th International Conference, EuroHaptics 2020, Proceedings
EditorsIlana Nisky, Jess Hartcher-O’Brien, Michaël Wiertlewski, Jeroen Smeets
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages279-287
Number of pages9
ISBN (Print)9783030581466
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Event12th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2020 - Leiden, Netherlands
Duration: Sep 6 2020Sep 9 2020

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume12272 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference12th International Conference on Human Haptic Sensing and Touch Enabled Computer Applications, EuroHaptics 2020
Country/TerritoryNetherlands
CityLeiden
Period9/6/209/9/20

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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