特定領域の硬軟感を変化できる毛状触覚ディスプレイ(<特集>ハプティックコンテンツ)

抄録

Furry animals or objects provide soft haptic feedback and comfortable feelings when people interact with them. With utilizing such features of furry surface, we have developed FuSA2 touch display that employs many sets of plastic fiber optics (POF) on the surface of display and realizes multi-touch interaction with furry haptic sensation. However, since the POF is fixed, the system cannot change the furry haptic sensations like softness, density, etc. In this paper, we propose a method to realize a changeable touch sensation on a furry surface covered with POF. Especially we attempt to dynamically control the softness distribution of the furry surface. We also evaluate how users can feel the haptic resolutions of our implemented system. As a result, the implemented system could let users feel various softness distributions.