Haptic feedback plays an important role to recognize and manipulate objects in virtual environments. Recently, high quality haptic feedback devices have been commercially available. However, the basic software for haptic devices is not prepared sufficiently. In this paper, we propose Haptic Interface Platform(HIP) that is a common software library independent of the types of haptic devices to construct virtual environments with haptic feedback. HIP supports three types of haptic device types:Point Type, Surface Type and Texture Type. To generalize Haptic Interface Platform, we classified it into three functions: (1)device driver, (2)haptic Tenderer, (3)haptic simulation engines. HIP enables users to make complex virtual environments easily. Since HIP is compatible with many haptic displays, we will also be able to accumulate haptic software assets and reproduct software in making applications. In the last of this paper, we developed simple haptic models using HIP and experimented how humans would feel them for each haptic display. We verified that HIP made the similar sensation for each display.
