Abstract
A tactile display device is effective in the virtual reality and remote control systems. This paper presents the tactile mouse which capable of making human subject feels virtual textures by distributed pressure. In this paper, we developed a new tactile mouse equipped with a matrix-type tactile display device and a vibrating structure gyroscope detecting the rotational motion of the tactile mouse. In order to evaluate the presentation accuracy of the tactile mouse, we performed a series of edge tracing oriented to several directions. As the results of this experiment, the human subject accepts tiny variation in edge direction because smaller threshold of edge direction is obtained compared to the conventional tactile mouse.
