A heterogeneous scalable architecture for collaborative haptics environments

Proceedings - 2nd IEEE International Workshop on Haptic, Audio and Visual Environments and their Applications, HAVE 2003

Volumn , Issue , 2003, Pages 113-118

  Shen, Xiaojun ^a   Bogsanyi, F ^b   Ni, Liya ^c   Georganas, N D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^b ALGONQUIN COLLEGE   (Canada)

^c Handshake Interactive Technol Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Collaboration; Collaborative work; Delay; Educational institutions; Electronic commerce; Erbium; Haptic interfaces; Information technology; Virtual environment; Virtual reality

Indexed keywords

COMMERCE; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; ERBIUM; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; VIRTUAL REALITY;

COLLABORATION; COLLABORATIVE WORK; DELAY; DISTRIBUTED SIMULATIONS; EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS; ELECTRONIC COMMERCE APPLICATIONS; HIGH LEVEL ARCHITECTURE; SCALABLE ARCHITECTURES;

HAPTIC INTERFACES;

EID: 33645147865     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/HAVE.2003.1244735     Document Type: Conference Paper

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