Learning Support System for Pulley using Tablet PC and Portable Haptic Device

Abstract

Recently, using tablet PCs in various school are conducted. Especially, it is remarked that all students can use own tablet PC. There are some advantage that the students can study own speed by using own device. In this paper, we propose the learning support system of pulley learning using a tablet PC and a portable haptic device for giving all students to own experiment environment. The user can experience the virtual experiment of pulley with the force feedback. The force feedback is corresponding to a pulley combination constructed by the user, and presented to the user's finger by touching the display. The pulley combination is constructed by arranging the pulleys displayed on the display. The system decides the pulley combination by the pulley's position to the user can construct the pulley combination only arranging the pulleys. Additionally, the user can arrange pulleys with the trajectory of real experiment by using touch panel. In the verification, it confirmed that the learner can conduct the virtual experiment with the trajectory like the real experiment.