13 - 18 OCTOBER 2013, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA

Towards a Formalized Process for Creating Haptic Data Visualizations

Contributors: 
Panagiotis D. Ritsos, Sabrina A. Paneels, Peter J. Rodgers, Jonathan C. Roberts
Description
Haptic Data Visualization (HDV) is a novel application of haptics. It provides functionality by which users touch and feel data, making it a useful tool for users with vision impairments. However, creating such visualizations usually requires programming knowledge, that support workers and tutors of blind users may not possess. To address this issue we propose a formalized process for creating HDVs using the HITPROTO [5] toolkit, which requires no programming experience. We further illustrate this process using an example HDV.