1st International ICST Workshop on Haptic in Ambient Systems

Research Article

A Quality of Experience Model for Haptic User Interfaces

  • @INPROCEEDINGS{10.4108/ICST.AMBISYS2008.2912,
        author={Abdelwahab Hamam and Mohamad Eid and Abdulmotaleb El Saddik and Nicolas D. Georganas},
        title={A Quality of Experience Model for Haptic User Interfaces},
        proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Haptic in Ambient Systems},
        publisher={ACM},
        proceedings_a={HAS},
        year={2010},
        month={5},
        keywords={Quality of Experience Haptic User Interface Haptic Perception.},
        doi={10.4108/ICST.AMBISYS2008.2912}
    }
    
  • Abdelwahab Hamam
    Mohamad Eid
    Abdulmotaleb El Saddik
    Nicolas D. Georganas
    Year: 2010
    A Quality of Experience Model for Haptic User Interfaces
    HAS
    ICST
    DOI: 10.4108/ICST.AMBISYS2008.2912
Abdelwahab Hamam1,*, Mohamad Eid2,*, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik2,*, Nicolas D. Georganas1,*
  • 1: DISCOVER Lab University of Ottawa Ottawa, On, Canada
  • 2: MCRLab University of Ottawa Ottawa, On, Canada
*Contact email: ahamam@discover.uottawa.ca, eid@mcrlab.uottawa.ca, abed@mcrlab.uottawa.ca, georganas@discover.uottawa.ca

Abstract

Multimedia systems and applications have recently started to integrate the sense of touch and force feedback in the humancomputer interaction. Surprisingly, measuring the quality of experience when haptic modality is incorporated in a graphical user interface has received limited attention from the research community. In this paper, we propose a taxonomy for measuring the quality of experience of a haptic user interface (HUI) applications. Furthermore, the taxonomy is modeled using a mathematical model. Finally, the proposed model is evaluated using two HUI-based applications: the haptic learning system and the haptic enabled UML CASE tool. The performance evaluation demonstrated that the proposed model is capable of reflecting the user estimation of the applications.