Takuya NOJIMA’s research while affiliated with The University of Tokyo and other places

The previous researches on augmented reality have been mainly focused on augmentation of visual or acoustic information. However, the human could get information not only through vision and acoustics, but also through haptics. The haptic sensation is very intuitive hence some researchers are focus on using haptic sensation in an augmented reality system. In these researches, the haptic sensation is generated based on static data such as generated from CAD, CT, etc. However, these systems are hard to respond to changing real environment in a real time. In this paper, we propose a new concept for the augmented reality of haptics, the SmartTool. The SmartTool could respond to the real environment by using real time sensors and a haptic display. The sensors on the SmartTool measure the real environment then send us that information through our haptic sensation. Furthermore, we will describe about the prototype system we have developed.

Previous research on augmented reality has been mainly focused on augmentation of visual or acoustic information. However, humans can receive information not only through vision and acoustics, but also through haptics. Haptic sensation is very intuitive, and some researchers are focusing on making use of haptics in augmented reality systems. While most previous research on haptics is based on static data, such as that generated from CAD, CT, and so on, these systems have difficulty responding to a changing real environment in real time. In this paper, we propose a new concept for the augmented reality of haptics, the SmartTool. The SmartTool responds to the real environment by using real time sensor(s) and a haptic display. The sensor(s) on the SmartTool measure the real environment then send us that information through haptic sensation. Furthermore, we will describe the prototype system we have developed