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RealPot: an immersive virtual pottery system with handheld haptic devices

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We present RealPot, an immersive virtual pottery system with haptic feedback for pottery simulation training using hand-held motion controllers. Our system consists of two major components: an automatic mesh generator and an interactive model editor. The mesh generator can procedurally generate realistic clay meshes by adding Perlin Noise. With the interactive pottery model editor, the user can shape the virtual clay intuitively with a series of bimanual interactions. Based on real-life pottery, a high realism pottery creation workflow was developed and a haptic model was proposed. Our user study investigated how haptic fidelity can impact usability in virtual pottery, and compared our system with a representative work of barehand-based virtual pottery systems. The results of our study reveal that haptic fidelity significantly affects performance and user experience. In addition, the results indicate that our system offers significantly accuracy, presence and usability compared with barehand-based virtual pottery experience.

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Acknowledgments

We thank the reviewers for their valuable feedback and comments. We also thank all the people participated in the user studies. This work is supported by the Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 61872104), the Natural Science Foundation of Heilongjiang Province in China (No. F2016009), the Fundamental Research Fund for the Central Universities in China (No. HEUCF180602 and HEUCFM180604) and the National Science and Technology Major Project (No. 2016ZX03001023-005).

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    Zihan Gao, Huiqiang Wang, Guangsheng Feng, Fangfang Guo, Hongwu Lv & Bingyang Li

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Appendix: Usability questionnaire

Appendix: Usability questionnaire

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    Rate how easy it was for you to shape the virtual clay (1 = extremely difficult, 7 = extremely easy).

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    Rate how natural it was for you to shape the virtual clay (1 = extremely unnatural, 7 = extremely unnatural).

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    Rate how much fun you had creating the virtual clay (1 = extremely frustrating, 7 = extremely fun).

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    Rate how creative it was for you to shape the virtual clay (1 = extremely little, 7 = extremely much).

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    Rate how tiring it was for you to shape the virtual clay (1 = extremely exhausting, 7 = not tiring at all).

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    Rate how much skills you gain from the virtual pottery training (1 = extremely little, 7 = extremely much).

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Gao, Z., Wang, H., Feng, G. et al. RealPot: an immersive virtual pottery system with handheld haptic devices. Multimed Tools Appl 78, 26569–26596 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-07843-3

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