FLINT, Mich.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--When people think of virtual reality, a assumption is that it can only be experienced through two senses: vision as well as sound. In a new Kettering University Haptics Lab, however, students work in virtual worlds that incorporate touch as well. It can be very difficult to perceive a environment while doing that Nicholas Cramer, from Greensboro, N.C., is on a short list of undergraduates in a nation who work in a virtual world of touch. Cramer controlled a mobile robot using a haptic steering circle as well as pedal as partial of his responsibilities in Ketterings new Haptics Lab. The project centered around a idea that there are many situations where we might like to control a robot remotely, Cramer explained. It can be very difficult to perceive a environment while doing that, he said. The reason we decided to use a steering circle as well as pedal was that they are objects that we use every day. We are comfortable sitting behind a steering circle as well as because of that we hope to tap into that feeling of comfort as well as knowledge of driving to lessen a learning curve that would normally be associated with a control of a tele-operated mobile robot. Haptics technology allows a user to touch virtual objects by using forces, vibrations or movements of a user in simulations. It has a wide variety of practical uses in various industries, including automotive as well as medical fields as well as it even has gaming as well as party applications. What made me interested in haptics was a human-computer interaction partial of it, Cramer continued. For a most part, we think of ourcommunicationto computers in a terms of a screen, a mouse as well as a keyboard. Haptics, though, allows us to communicate with a computer through a completely different way, as well as thats just kind of cool no ! ma tter how you slice it. Cramer recently graduated from Kettering, earning dual degrees in Mechanical as well as Electrical Engineering. Ketterings Haptics Systems course is one of only a handful of similar courses in haptics offered in universities across a country. Part of a draw of a discipline is its versatility. Many students are interested in haptics, said Dr. Mehrdad Zadeh, assistant professor of Electrical as well as Computer Engineering. It gives them something to stay with thats versatile, he added. To read more on Ketterings new Haptics Lab, visit: http://www.kettering.edu/visitors/storydetail.jsp?storynum=3124 About Kettering University Kettering University, in Flint, Mich., is anationally-ranked STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering as well as Mathematics) as well as Businessuniversity as well as a national leader in combining a rigorous academic environment with rich opportunities for experiential learning as well as cooperative education as well as a focus on a learning experience of a individual student. Ketterings 1,900 undergraduates as well as 1,000 graduate students choose from 14 undergraduate as well as 9 masters degrees, plus more than 50minors, specialties, concentrations as well as courses of study. Some of Ketterings fastest growing academic majors are Bioinformatics, Chemical Engineering as well as BioChemistry. For more information, visitwww.kettering.edu.
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