Abstract
The objective of this study is to develop a novel mouse device that can present slippages to users via their fingertip skin: the device is called an “active wheel mouse” in this paper, which is a mouse that embodies an active wheel being rotatable in any directions, with any speeds and with any duration times. Through the slippage stimuli, the interface can present line-segment directions and lengths to users. In this paper, line-drawings being connected with some line-segments were presented. Furthermore, two kinds of presentation methods: with/without positional feedback were prepared. By measuring length and direction of each of line-segments, a feasibility of the interface and the presentation methods were confirmed.
