Title :
A Haptic Enabled UML Case Tool
Author :
Alamri, Atif ; Eid, Mohamad ; El Saddik, Abdulmotaleb
Author_Institution :
Ottawa Univ., Ottawa
Abstract :
This paper describes a haptic enabled UML CASE tool that enables software engineering developers to physically manipulate and touch the UML modeling elements and feel the force feedback. We propose an architecture and a software design for the tool. The current implementation of the tool uses the Omni Phantom device, a quite common haptic interface among the haptic research community. The CASE tool, from a user perspective, consists of three parts: a drawing area, a palette, and a tool bar. Our preliminary usability study demonstrated the potential of adding the haptic modality to UML development tools.
Keywords :
Unified Modeling Language; force feedback; haptic interfaces; software engineering; software tools; Omni Phantom device; UML development tools; UML modeling; force feedback; haptic enabled UML CASE tool; haptic interfaces; software design; software engineering; Application software; Computer aided software engineering; Computer architecture; Force feedback; Graphical user interfaces; Haptic interfaces; Humans; Software design; Unified modeling language; Usability;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia and Expo, 2007 IEEE International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Beijing
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-1016-9
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-1017-7
DOI :
10.1109/ICME.2007.4284827
