Preliminary Report on a Haptic Feedback Technique for Basic Interactions with a Virtual Control Panel

This paper discusses haptic feedback for interactions with sliders and buttons on a virtual control panel. We present a haptic technique that uses both feedback from a portable force-feedback glove and feedback from direct contact with a real panel. An evaluation comparing this combined approach to each individual approach is presented. The combination of two approaches is shown to result in improved user performance and improved subjective ratings when compared to the use of only a force-feedback glove, and it is shown to improve subjective ratings when compared to the use of only a static panel.