Sistemas hápticos para a educação: passado, presente e futuro

Abstract

Since the advent of Virtual Reality, search that the user feel increasingly immersed in the virtual world, aiming to increase the realism of this environment. For this reason, computer technologies have evolved from mice and keyboards, for stereo glasses, digital gloves, immersion helmets and haptic feedback devices. With such developments, today, systems that use haptic feedback devices (or simply, haptic systems) are about to change the way we interact and control our computers, because these systems can contain up to three senses of the human body, the visual , the auditory and the tactile. As the origin of computers over 50 years ago, its impacts are still unknown, which leaves us one question unanswered: there will be systems that use haptic devices in all homes, classrooms and offices? Due to these and other questions, the objective of this work is to study the main trends and the application of haptic systems within the educational context.