Project Number
- 72
Title
- Desktop Force Display
Description
- Interactive force-feedback display system for the desktop.
Contact
- Hiroo Iwata
Affiliation
- University of Tsukuba
Address
- Institute of Engineering Mechanics
- Tsukuba, 305 Japan
- +81.298.53.5362
- +81.298.58.0140 fax
- Tsukuba, 305 Japan
- iwata@kz.tsukuba.ac.jp
WWW
Year
- 1994
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 94 Visual Proceedings
Project Details
- "In this display, users can feel the rigidity or weight of virtual objects with a compact force-feedback device for desktop use. A six-degree-of-freedom manipulator employs a parallel mechanism to apply reaction forces to the fingers of the operator. The manipulator's handle is supported by three sets of pantographs. With this compact hardware, the operator can feel the physical characteristics of three types of virtual objects: hard surface, elastic surface, and flow."
- "These three types of virtual objects are located in the working space of the force display. No visual image is presented to the user. The user gropes around in the virtual space for two or three minutes per demonstration. The system does not require instruction or calibration for individual differences, so 20 to 30 people can experience the demonstration each hour."
- "This innovative force-feedback device was specifically developed for desktop use."
Sight
- Desktop Force Display
Sound
Touch
- Desktop Force Display
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 205 - tangible / gesture interface
Secondary
- 103 - sense cue (vis,aud,tac/ff/mo,olf,tast)
Remarks
- Implementation details undocumented.
- "The same team displayed a desktop force system with the same mechanical characteristics in the SIGGRAPH '90 Proceedings."
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