J027023 Force Display Touchpad : Haptic and Selection Function with Angular Displacement of the Operation Plate

Abstract

This paper describes confirmation of operation of a force display touchpad for the purpose of PC support. Recently, the elderly and/or visually impaired people who use PCs to obtain information are increasing. However, they are less than the number of other generations. It is because they have difficulty of operation of PCs. We have developed a force display touchpad for the purpose of PC support for the visually impaired and elderly. By using this device, the operator can touch the window frame in the screen of PC. In addition, the cursor will be guided to the position of the button. In this paper, we improve the software of force display touchpad, and it correspond to the windows and web browser. We confirmed the operation of these two functions in a web page.