Person and equipment with text - force-feedback tactile glove, gaze tracker, automatic speech recognition, speakers, speech synthesis, microphone array, smart controller for tactile glove

Fig.4. Expermental client workstation incorporating sight, sound and touch modalities for human/machine communication. The eye tracker provides a gaze-controlled cursor on the screen. The tactile force-feedback glove allows virtual objects to be grasped, "felt", and manipulated. Hands-free speech recognition and synthesis provides natural conversational interaction.

Next slide

Back to list of slides.