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CAiSE 2022: Intelligent Information Systems pp 92–99Cite as

Web of Tactile Things: Towards an Open and Standardized Platform for Tactile Things via the W3C Web of Things

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Toward the development of the Tactile Internet beyond the 5G era and the recently-introduced Metaverse, a need for standardized platforms to exchange haptics information for human and cyber-physical systems is emerging. This paper introduces our attempt for an open and standardized platform for tactile things, namely Web of Tactile Thing (WoTT). The WoTT extends the W3C Web of Things (WoT) to exchange haptic information from tactile sensing devices to cross-domain services via already proven Web technologies. This paper proposes (i) haptic vocabularies to generate the WoT Thing Description for vision-based tactile sensing devices, as well as (ii) mechanisms to connect, update, and exchange tactile information efficiently. To prove the feasibility of the platform, a proof of concept includes (i) a tactile sensing device to produce tactile information and (ii) a WoT client that consumes proposed vocabularies to create a digital twin of the physical device, have been implemented. The feasibility of the proposed platform has been verified by abilities to reproduce the digital twin and reflect touch events timely and correctly via the WoTT.

V. C. Pham, Q. K. Luu, T. T. Nguyen and N. H. Nguyen—Authors are equally contributed.

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Notes

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    https://www.w3.org/TR/wot-scripting-api/.

  2. 2.

    https://assist-iot.eu/.

  3. 3.

    https://github.com/Ho-lab-jaist/WoTT.

  4. 4.

    https://github.com/agmangas/wot-py.

  5. 5.

    http://plugfest.thingweb.io/playground/.

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This work was fully supported by JST Precursory Research for Embryonic Science and Technology PRESTO under Grant JPMJPR2038.

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Pham, V.C., Luu, Q.K., Nguyen, T.T., Nguyen, N.H., Tan, Y., Ho, V.A. (2022). Web of Tactile Things: Towards an Open and Standardized Platform for Tactile Things via the W3C Web of Things. In: De Weerdt, J., Polyvyanyy, A. (eds) Intelligent Information Systems. CAiSE 2022. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 452. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-07481-3_11

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