A Haptic Enabled UML Case Tool

Author

Alamri, Atif ; Eid, Mohamad ; El Saddik, Abdulmotaleb

Author_Institution

Ottawa Univ., Ottawa

fYear

2007

fDate

2-5 July 2007

Firstpage

1023

Lastpage

1026

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

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

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICME.2007.4284827

Filename

4284827