SODHO: Service oriented development of haptics ontology

Abstract

The advancement of smartphones and tablets, and the ever-growing need to interact with electrical and electronic devices with the hands, have empowered the development of intelligent interfaces called haptic interfaces. These are made primarily of sensors and actuators, and have the distinguished features of “Perception”. In order to build a dataset serving the design phases of software applications development for these interfaces, the need for an ontology for Haptic Interface Systems (HIS) comprising sensors and actuators or, in general, transducers is needed. In this paper, we propose SODHO, a state of the art Service Oriented Ontology for haptic interfaces. This ontology, uses OWL (Web Ontology Language), and a Knowledge Base of what is present so far within the haptics (sensors and actuators) domain.