Designed haptic feedback—technology-mediated touch feedback—has the potential to
mediate positive and meaningful experiences. These experiences are rich and complex in …

Personalization in computer-based systems aims at supporting users individually, by
tailoring various system characteristics and components according to their respective needs …

This paper investigates how people interact in immersive virtual reality environments, during
selection and manipulation tasks in different conditions. We take into consideration two …

Personalization, aiming at supporting users individually and according to their individual
needs and prerequisites, has been discussed in a number of domains, including learning …

The sense of touch is of crucial importance for humans, especially those with impairments.
Traditionally, most input devices (eg, mice, joysticks or touchpads) accounted for this by …

Virtual Reality (VR) is an innovating technology which, in the last decade, has had a
widespread success, mainly thanks to the release of low cost devices, which have …

Although recently, touch-based input with a reduced amount of haptic guidance gained
popularity, traditional tangible input devices like mice or joysticks are still indispensable of …

Traditionally, input devices allowed for at least a certain degree of haptic experience by
involving direct physical contact between user and device. Recently, touchless interaction …