3 papers
cs.HC2025
Exploring Immersive Social-Physical Interaction with Virtual Characters through Coordinated Robotic Encountered-Type Contact
Eric Godden, Jacquie Groenewegen, Michael Wheeler +1
This work presents novel robot-mediated immersive experiences enabled by an encountered-type haptic display (ETHD) that introduces direct physical contact in virtual environments.…
cs.RO2025
ETHOS: A Robotic Encountered-Type Haptic Display for Social Interaction in Virtual Reality
Eric Godden, Jacquie Groenewegen, Matthew K. X. J. Pan
We present ETHOS (Encountered-Type Haptics for On-demand Social Interaction), a dynamic encountered-type haptic display (ETHD) that enables natural physical contact in virtual real…
cs.RO2024
Towards Robotic Haptic Proxies in Virtual Reality
Eric Godden, Matthew Pan
This work represents the initial development of a haptic display system for increased presence in virtual experiences. The developed system creates a two-way connection between a v…