TorqueBAR

Colin Swindells, Alex Unden, Tao Sang
2003 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Multimodal interfaces - ICMI '03  
Kinesthetic feedback is a key mechanism by which people perceive object properties during their daily tasks -particularly inertial properties. For example, transporting a glass of water without spilling, or dynamically positioning a handheld tool such as a pen, both require inertial kinesthetic feedback. In this paper, we describe a novel ungrounded haptic feedback device that exploits a kinesthetic awareness of dynamic inertia to simulate complex coupled motion as both a display and input
more » ... e. As a user tilts our device, called the TorqueBAR, to sense and control computer programmed stimuli, the TorqueBAR's centre-of-mass changes in real-time. We also evaluate the TorqueBAR using both quantitative and qualitative techniques. Finally, we describe possible applications for our device such as video games and realtime robot navigation.
doi:10.1145/958444.958445 fatcat:fkjsla4vkvhhzlyqt7cc3awxle