Leveraging LLMs to Create a Haptic Devices' Recommendation System
This addresses a domain-specific problem for haptic technology developers by providing an incremental improvement in device recommendation tools.
The paper tackles the lack of awareness in haptic device design by developing a recommendation system for Grounded Force Feedback devices using LLMs, achieving top 10% rankings across all UEQ categories with superior usability and user satisfaction.
Haptic technology has seen significant growth, yet a lack of awareness of existing haptic device design knowledge hinders development. This paper addresses these limitations by leveraging advancements in Large Language Models (LLMs) to develop a haptic agent, focusing specifically on Grounded Force Feedback (GFF) devices recommendation. Our approach involves automating the creation of a structured haptic device database using information from research papers and product specifications. This database enables the recommendation of relevant GFF devices based on user queries. To ensure precise and contextually relevant recommendations, the system employs a dynamic retrieval method that combines both conditional and semantic searches. Benchmarking against the established UEQ and existing haptic device searching tools, the proposed haptic recommendation agent ranks in the top 10\% across all UEQ categories with mean differences favoring the agent in nearly all subscales, and maintains no significant performance bias across different user groups, showcasing superior usability and user satisfaction.