caa a22 4500 605447799 CHVBK 20210128100133.0 cr unu---uuuuu 210128e20150801xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s11042-014-1865-x doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s11042-014-1865-x Development of a haptic video chat system [Elektronische Daten] [Longyu Zhang, Jamal Saboune, Abdulmotaleb El Saddik] Since conventional audio-video teleconferencing systems have reached their limits, the needs of integrating new sensations to improve users' telecommunication experience are growing. Haptics, the sense of touch, which includes handshake, comforting hug, encouraging pat, and other physical contacts, is important to interpersonal communication, as it allows people to express and receive intimate affection, intention or emotion efficiently. Motivated by some haptic telecommunication softwares, this paper presents an innovative webcam-based touchscreen to further increase people's degree of immersion with the haptic video chat system at a more reasonable price. With our webcam-based touchscreen, the user could directly use his/her bare hand to touch the image of the person who he/she is chatting with, instead of controlling a haptic device as the medium to realize indirect touch. This paper also gives details of the touchscreen method and our proposed mathematical models for touch position calculation. Experimental results show that our system is accurate and robust, while maintaining high compatibility with conventional audio-video teleconferencing systems for combination. With our haptic jacket, the passive user can feel the touch of the active user at the right position. Finally, we draw the conclusions and talk about future work. Springer Science+Business Media New York, 2014 Multimedia information systems nationallicence Haptic I/O nationallicence User interfaces nationallicence Zhang Longyu Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab), School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada aut Saboune Jamal Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab), School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada aut El Saddik Abdulmotaleb Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab), School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada aut Multimedia Tools and Applications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 74/15(2015-08-01), 5489-5512 1380-7501 74:15<5489 2015 74 11042 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-014-1865-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-014-1865-x text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zhang Longyu Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab), School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Saboune Jamal Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab), School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- El Saddik Abdulmotaleb Multimedia Communications Research Laboratory (MCRLab), School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Ottawa, K1N 6N5, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Multimedia Tools and Applications Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 74/15(2015-08-01), 5489-5512 1380-7501 74:15<5489 2015 74 11042