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is a collaborative project with the Edinburgh College of
Art, lasting three years which is funded by the Arts and
Humanities Research Board.
Haptic
interfaces offer the potential for designers and applied
artists to work more intuitively within a 3D environment
by providing direct, physical interaction with their data.
Many of the cumbersome elements of today's CAD packages
(rigid, inflexible geometry, confusing multiple 2D viewpoints,
abstract buttons and "tools" for data interaction,
deeply nested menus and technical language) arise from our
difficulty of formalising and visualising in 3D space. We
believe a more user friendly way to overcome this is to
aid the designer with helpful haptic feedback, which can
be used to guide and advise them in the 3D environment. |
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