A human interface device for CAVE: size virtual workspace

Author

Cai, Y. ; Ishii, M. ; Sato, M.

Author_Institution

Precision & Intelligence Lab., Tokyo Inst. of Technol., Japan

Volume

3

fYear

1996

fDate

14-17 Oct 1996

Firstpage

2084

Abstract

The importance of force feedback in a virtual workspace had already been showed in many researches. With force feedback, operators in the virtual workspace can do their “virtual” jobs more speedily and precisely and can feel more real. Nowadays force display is mainly realized by complicated structure. These complicated and heavy structures both make the user feel uncomfortable and limited his moving freedom. We have made a string-motor structure device, called BIG SPIDER, to realize the position measurement and force display in a human-scale virtual environment. This is a kind of simple mechanism, light weight and moving free system. A system is developed which allow the user not only move around but also feeling force sensation in it

Keywords

feedback; interactive systems; man-machine systems; position measurement; virtual reality; BIG SPIDER; CAVE; force display; force feedback; force sensation; human interface device; position measurement; string-motor structure; virtual workspace; Auditory displays; DC motors; Force feedback; Force measurement; Humans; Machinery; Pulleys; Virtual environment; Virtual reality; Wounds;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 1996., IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

0-7803-3280-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1996.565460

Filename

565460