2 papers
cs.HC2026
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.RO2026
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…