1P1-X05 Development of an Interface with Haptic Technology Using a Force Sensor : Haptic Desk: a Technique to Provide Tactile Sense to a Desk(Tactile and Force Sensing (1))

Abstract

This paper describes a technique to provide tactile sense to a desk by a simple mechanism. The tactile sense is provided to the whole body of the desk by fixing a force sensor on each leg. One of the advantages of this technique is that the contact point can be estimated without any sensor device on the surface of the desk. The desk can be used as a kind of a haptic interface by utilizing the advantage. Some examples of application using the desk with computer graphics are introduced.