TY - CHAP AU - Peter Berkelman AU - Michael Dzadovsky ED - Mehrdad Hosseini Zadeh Y1 - 2010-04-01 PY - 2010 T1 - Using Magnetic Levitation for Haptic Interaction N2 - Haptic interfaces are divided into two main categories: force feedback and tactile. Force feedback interfaces are used to explore and modify remote/virtual objects in three physical dimensions in applications including computer-aided design, computer-assisted surgery, and computer-aided assembly. Tactile interfaces deal with surface properties such as roughness, smoothness, and temperature. Haptic research is intrinsically multi-disciplinary, incorporating computer science/engineering, control, robotics, psychophysics, and human motor control. By extending the scope of research in haptics, advances can be achieved in existing applications such as computer-aided design (CAD), tele-surgery, rehabilitation, scientific visualization, robot-assisted surgery, authentication, and graphical user interfaces (GUI), to name a few. Advances in Haptics presents a number of recent contributions to the field of haptics. Authors from around the world present the results of their research on various issues in the field of haptics. BT - Advances in Haptics SP - Ch. 2 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/8700 DO - 10.5772/8700 SN - PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-03-28 ER -