Comments on: Haptic Novint Falcon Navigates Virtual Space

By: Scott

Scott — Thu, 27 Dec 2007 16:32:11 +0000

This is similar to work being done with Edusim – its located here – http://www.edusim3d.com – Also, the Wiimote has haptic vibrations, not sure if DarwiinRemote supprots the haptics or not.

Scott

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By: Jason

Jason — Mon, 24 Dec 2007 07:24:43 +0000

This is similar to Edusim here – http://www.edusim3d.com

Interesting work.

By: Doug Holton

Doug Holton — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:12:24 +0000

Nice work! Let me know if you guys want to collaborate on anything, I have one of these Novint Falcon controllers, too, but haven’t really played around with it much yet.

About your study, it may be difficult to show differences between the haptic and non-haptic conditions, unless the students are learning about something in which haptic/tactile information is important.

But anyway, here is a reference to a previous study on real vs. simulated frog dissections that may be useful:

Akpan, J.P., & Andre, T. (2000). Using a computer simulation before dissection to help students learn anatomy. Journal of Computers in Mathematics and Science Teaching, 19(3), 297-313.

By: Pat

Pat — Wed, 19 Dec 2007 05:38:57 +0000

Edusim is very similar – except students use their fingers to touch the objects on the screen/wall – http://edusim3d.com

here is also a video – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVFsxev-2sk

also some secondlife video -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ra50XTelwro

By: steve b

steve b — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 20:19:07 +0000

Wow Jeff, this is great. I am glad to see there is some active work in this arena. I love the fact that it is being considered for games, and even in the realm of second life as used for education. What I would really like to see is for us to get to a point where we rwally do get to true “object oriented programming” in thse sense of actually virtual objects.