MorphoHaptics: An Open-Source Tool for Visuohaptic Exploration of Morphological Image Datasets
<|reference_start|>MorphoHaptics: An Open-Source Tool for Visuohaptic Exploration of Morphological Image Datasets: Although digital methods have significantly advanced morphology, practitioners are still challenged to understand and process tomographic specimen data. As automated processing of fossil data remains insufficient, morphologists still engage in intensive manual work to prepare digital fossils for research objectives. We present an open-source tool that enables morphologists to explore tomographic data similarly to the physical workflows that traditional fossil preparators experience in the field. We assessed the usability of our prototype for virtual fossil preparation and its accompanying tasks in the digital preparation workflow. Our findings indicate that integrating haptics into the virtual preparation workflow enhances the understanding of the morphology and material properties of working specimens. Our design's visuohaptic sculpting of fossil volumes was deemed straightforward and an improvement over current tomographic data processing methods.<|reference_end|>
@article{rodrigues2024morphohaptics:,
    title={MorphoHaptics: An Open-Source Tool for Visuohaptic Exploration of
  Morphological Image Datasets},
    author={Lucas Siqueira Rodrigues, Thomas Kosch, John Nyakatura, Stefan Zachow,
  Johann Habakuk Israel},
    journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:2409.17766},
    year={2024},
    archivePrefix={arXiv},
    eprint={2409.17766},
    primaryClass={cs.HC}
}