The Haptik Library - a Component based Architecture for Haptic Devices Access

Haptik is a component based library recently developed at the University of Siena. It allows easy but powerful low-level access to haptic devices, both in a uniform way, common to all devices, or in a more specialized one. Haptik addresses haptic device access. It is non-invasive and easily usable with existing applications. Its architecture guarantees a binary compatibility of applications with future versions of devices, library and plugins, still maintaining the maximum performance achievable directly with devices SDKs. The library is freely downloadable at http://sirslab.dii.unisi.it/haptic/haptik.htm