Patrick Gebhardt
ABSTRACT
We contribute MolecuSense, a virtual version of a physical molecule construction kit, based on visualization in Virtual Reality (VR) and interaction with force-feedback gloves. Targeting at chemistry education, our goal is to make virtual molecule structures more tangible. Results of an initial user study indicate that the VR molecular construction kit was positively received. Compared to a physical construction kit, the VR molecular construction kit is on the same level in terms of natural interaction. Besides, it fosters the typical digital advantages though, such as saving, exporting, and sharing of molecules. Feedback from the study participants has also revealed potential future avenues for tangible molecule visualizations.
Supplemental Material
- Roger Bakeman. 2005. Recommended effect size statistics for repeated measures designs. Behavior research methods 37, 3 (2005), 379–384. https://doi.org/10.3758/BF03192707Google Scholar
Cross Ref
- Aaron Bangor, Philip T Kortum, and James T Miller. 2008. An Empirical Evaluation of the System Usability Scale. International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction (IJHCI) 24, 6(2008), 574–594. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447310802205776Google ScholarCross Ref
- Aude Bolopion, Barthélemy Cagneau, Stephane Redon, and Stéphane Régnier. 2009. Haptic Feedback for Molecular Simulation. In IEEE Conf. on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS). IEEE, 237–242. https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2009.5354256Google ScholarCross Ref
- Tim Bray, Jean Paoli, C Michael Sperberg-McQueen, Eve Maler, Franois Yergeau, 2000. Extensible Markup Language (XML) 1.0.Google Scholar
- Geoff Cumming. 2013. Understanding the new statistics: Effect sizes, confidence intervals, and meta-analysis. Routledge.Google Scholar
- Filipp Furche, Reinhart Ahlrichs, Christof Hättig, Wim Klopper, Marek Sierka, and Florian Weigend. 2014. Turbomole. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Molecular Science 4, 2(2014), 91–100. https://doi.org/10.1002/wcms.1162Google ScholarCross Ref
- Samuel W Greenhouse and Seymour Geisser. 1959. On methods in the analysis of profile data. Psychometrika 24, 2 (1959), 95–112. https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02289823Google ScholarCross Ref
- Marcus D Hanwell, Donald E Curtis, David C Lonie, Tim Vandermeersch, Eva Zurek, and Geoffrey R Hutchison. 2012. Avogadro: an advanced semantic chemical editor, visualization, and analysis platform. Journal of Cheminformatics 4, 1 (Dec. 2012), 17. https://doi.org/10.1186/1758-2946-4-17Google ScholarCross Ref
- Sandra G Hart and Lowell E Staveland. 1988. Development of NASA-TLX (Task Load Index): Results of empirical and theoretical research. In Advances in psychology. Vol. 52. Elsevier, 139–183. https://doi.org/10.1016/S0166-4115(08)62386-9Google ScholarCross Ref
- Xiyuan Hou and Olga Sourina. 2011. Six Degree-of-Freedom Haptic Rendering for Biomolecular Docking. In Trans. on computational science XII. Springer, 98–117. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22336-5_6Google ScholarCross Ref
- Julian Kreimeier, Sebastian Hammer, Daniel Friedmann, Pascal Karg, Clemens Bühner, Lukas Bankel, and Timo Götzelmann. 2019. Evaluation of Different Types of Haptic Feedback Influencing the Task-based Presence and Performance in Virtual Reality. In ACM Proc. on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments (PETRA). 289–298. https://doi.org/10.1145/3316782.3321536Google ScholarDigital Library
- Anderson Maciel, Sofiane Sarni, Olivier Buchwalder, Ronan Boulic, and Daniel Thalmann. 2004. Multi-Finger Haptic Rendering of Deformable Objects. In Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments (EGVE). 105–111. https://doi.org/10.2312/EGVE/EGVE04/105-112Google ScholarCross Ref
- Magnus Norrby, Christoph Grebner, Joakim Eriksson, and Jonas Boström. 2015. Molecular Rift: Virtual Reality for Drug Designers. Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling 55, 11 (2015), 2475–2484. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.5b00544 arXiv:https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.jcim.5b00544PMID: 26558887.Google ScholarCross Ref
- William A Pike, John Stasko, Remco Chang, and Theresa A O’connell. 2009. The Science of Interaction. Information visualization 8, 4 (2009), 263–274. https://doi.org/10.1057/ivs.2009.22Google ScholarDigital Library
- Priscilla Ramsamy, Adrian Haffegee, Ronan Jamieson, and Vassil Alexandrov. 2006. Using haptics to improve immersion in virtual environments. In International Conference on Computational Science (ICCS). Springer, 603–609. https://doi.org/10.1007/11758525_81Google ScholarDigital Library
- Hasti Seifi, Farimah Fazlollahi, Michael Oppermann, John Andrew Sastrillo, Jessica Ip, Ashutosh Agrawal, Gunhyuk Park, Katherine J Kuchenbecker, and Karon E MacLean. 2019. Haptipedia: Accelerating Haptic Device Discovery to Support Interaction & Engineering Design. 1–12. https://doi.org/10.1145/3290605.3300788Google ScholarDigital Library
- Samuel Sanford Shapiro and Martin B Wilk. 1965. An analysis of variance test for normality (complete samples). Biometrika 52, 3/4 (1965), 591–611. https://doi.org/10.2307/2333709Google ScholarCross Ref
- Daniel Shor, Bryan Zaaijer, Laura Ahsmann, Simon Immerzeel, Max Weetzel, Daniël Eikelenboom, Jess Hartcher-O’Brien, and Doris Aschenbrenner. 2018. Designing Haptics: Comparing Two Virtual Reality Gloves with Respect to Realism, Performance and Comfort. IEEE, 318–323. https://doi.org/10.1109/ISMAR-Adjunct.2018.00095Google ScholarCross Ref
- Claudia Steffen, Klaus Thomas, Uwe Huniar, Arnim Hellweg, Oliver Rubner, and Alexander Schroer. 2010. TmoleX—A graphical user interface for TURBOMOLE. Journal of Computational Chemistry 31, 16 (2010), 2967–2970. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcc.21576Google ScholarCross Ref
- Matthew B Stocks, Steven Hayward, and Stephen D Laycock. 2009. Interacting with the Biomolecular Solvent Accessible Surface via A Haptic Feedback Device. BMC structural biology 9, 1 (2009), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.1186/1472-6807-9-69Google ScholarCross Ref
- Martin Turner. 1971. Ball and stick models for organic chemistry. Journal of Chemical Education 48, 6 (1971), 407. https://doi.org/10.1021/ed048p407Google ScholarCross Ref
- Bob G. Witmer and Michael J. Singer. 1998. Measuring Presence in Virtual Environments: A Presence Questionnaire. Presence: Teleoperators and Virtual Environments 7, 3 (June 1998), 225–240. https://doi.org/10.1162/105474698565686Google ScholarDigital Library
- Robert C Zeleznik, Andrew S Forsberg, and Jürgen P Schulze. 2005. Look-that-there: Exploiting Gaze in Virtual Reality Interactions. Brown Univ., Providence, RI, USA, Tech. Rep. CS-05 (2005).Google Scholar
- Thomas G Zimmerman, Jaron Lanier, Chuck Blanchard, Steve Bryson, and Young Harvill. 1986. A hand gesture interface device. ACM SIGCHI Bulletin 18, 4 (1986), 189–192. https://doi.org/10.1145/1165387.275628Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- MolecuSense: Using Force-Feedback Gloves for Creating and Interacting with Ball-and-Stick Molecules in VR
Recommendations
Virtual Reality Learning Environment with Haptic Gloves
ICEDS '22: Proceedings of the 2022 3rd International Conference on Education Development and StudiesSeveral new types of sense gloves have been developed in recent years. These can generate a dynamically changing haptic force for each individual finger and can be effectively integrated with virtual environments that contain new applications. This ...
Prototype of a wearable force-feedback mechanism for free-range immersive experience
RACS '22: Proceedings of the Conference on Research in Adaptive and Convergent SystemsThe recent rise in popularity of head-mounted displays (HMDs) for immersion into virtual reality has resulted in demand for new ways to interact with virtual objects. Most solutions utilize generic controllers for interaction within virtual environments ...
Mass simulation in VR using vibrotactile feedback and a co-located physically-based virtual hand
AbstractVirtual reality allows for highly immersive simulated experiences and interaction with virtual objects. However, virtual objects do not have real masses. Providing the sense of mass for virtual objects using un-grounded haptic ...
Graphical abstractDisplay Omitted
Comments