HapticScreenを用いたメディアインスタレーション : ANOMALOCARIS(<特集>インタラクティブアート)

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"ANOMALOCARIS" is an interactive work, which represents virtual creature through visual and haptic sensation. Anomalocaris is a name of an animal that supposed to live during the Cambrian Era. Virtual anomalocaris is displayed on the HapticScreen. HapticScreen is a new configuration of a force feedback device. HapticScreen has an innovative mechanism that creates sense of touch on whole palm. The device deforms itself to present shapes of virtual object. Typical force feedback device uses a grip or thimble. On the other hand, users of HapticScreen can touch virtual object without wearing anything. HapticScreen employs a flexible screen made of cloth. Video image is projected on the flexible screen so that the participant can directly touch the image and feels its rigidity. Actuators are set under the screen, which make deformation. Original HapticScreen employs 36 linear actuators set at an array of 6 x 6. The screen deforms by the actuators. Each actuator has a force sensor. Hardness of the screen is variable by these actuators and sensors. We have developed a simplified and robust mechanism of HapticScreen for the exhibition at the Ars Electronica Center.
日本バーチャルリアリティ学会の論文
2000-03-31