Nowadays the World Wide Web increasingly provides rich multimedia contents to its
users.In order to further enhance the experience of web-users, researchers have sought
solutions to integrate yet another modality into the web experience by augmenting web
content with haptic properties. In those applications, users are able to interact with
web virtual environments (such as games and e-learning systems) enriched with haptic
contents. However, it is not easy for designers without pro cient web programming
background and basic knowledge regarding haptics, to develop a web application with
haptic content enabled. Additionally, there is currently no standard to describe and reuse
a well-described haptic application which can be played in web browsers. In this thesis,
I present an MPEG-V based authoring tool for facilitating the development procedure
of haptics-enabled web applications. The system provides an interface for users to create
their own application, add custom 3D models, and modify their graphic and haptic
properties. Haptic properties include the speci cation of collision detection mechanism
and object surface properties which in turn directly a ect the force simulations. Finally,
the user is able to export a haptic-enabled 3D scene in a standard MPEG-V format
which can be reconstructed in a web haptic player. A detailed experiment is conducted
to evaluate the force simulations, application development process and design of user
interface. The results not only verify my proposed methodology, but also show the high
acceptance level by users with all levels of programming knowledge of the system.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:uottawa.ca/oai:ruor.uottawa.ca:10393/30717 |
| Date | January 2014 |
| Creators | Gao, Yu |
| Contributors | Saddik, Abdulmotaleb El |
| Publisher | Université d'Ottawa / University of Ottawa |
| Source Sets | Université d’Ottawa |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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