%0 Journal Article %T Virtual Reality and Haptics for Product Assembly %A Pingjun Xia %A Antonio M Lopes %A Maria Teresa Restivo %J International Journal of Online Engineering (iJOE) %D 2012 %I Kassel University Press %R 10.3991/ijoe.v8is1.1894 %X Haptics can significantly enhance the user's sense of immersion and interactivity. An industrial application of virtual reality and haptics for product assembly is described in this paper, which provides a new and low-cost approach for product assembly design, assembly task planning and assembly operation training. A demonstration of the system with haptics device interaction was available at the session of exp.at'11. %K haptics %K interface %K virtual %K reality %K assembly %U http://online-journals.org/index.php/i-joe/article/view/1894