A realtime and direct-touch interaction system for the 3D cultural artifact exhibition

Abstract

We propose a realtime and direct-touch interaction system for 3D cultural artifact exhibition based on a texture-based haptic rendering technique. In the field of digital archive, it is important to archive and exhibit the cultural artifact at the high-definition. To archive the shape, color and texture of the cultural artifact, it is important to archive and represent not only visual effect but haptic impression. Therefore, multimodal digital archiving, realtime multisensory rendering, and intuitive and immersive exhibition system are necessary. Therefore, we develop a realtime and direct-touch interaction system for the 3D cultural artifact exhibition based on a texture-based haptic rendering technique. In our system, the viewer can directly touch a stereoscopic vision of 3D digital archived cultural artifact with the string-based and scalable haptic interface device "SPIDAR" and vibration motor. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.