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The extent that haptic force feedback affects people’s ability to collaborate in a mediated way has not been investigated much. In this paper an experiment is presented where collaboration in a distributed desktop virtual environment with haptic force feedback was studied. A video analysis of the frequency of failures to lift cubes collaboratively in a haptic condition compared to a condition with no haptic force feedback was conducted. The frequency of failures to lift cubes collaboratively is a measure of precision in task performance. The statistical analysis of the data shows that it is significantly more difficult to lift objects collaboratively in a three-dimensional desktop virtual environment without haptic force feedback.
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Kirsten Rassmus-Gröhn and Calle Sjöström are gratefully acknowledged for the contribution of the software that made it possible to use the PHANToMs collaboratively, and for the assistance in managing the PHANToM hardware. Without their work this experiment would not have been possible to perform. I would also like to thank Kerstin Severinson-Eklundh for her valuable comments and suggestions.
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Sallnäs, EL. (2001). Improved precision in mediated collaborative manipulation of objects by haptic force feedback. In: Brewster, S., Murray-Smith, R. (eds) Haptic Human-Computer Interaction. Haptic HCI 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2058. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44589-7_8
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