Tactile Feedback Output Device for Scanning Tunneling Microscope

这项工作是提供一个多刺激触觉 安装在鼠标上的阵列设备。 该设备将提供一个 手指感知图案、纹理或 图像表面的变化。 它被设计 特别是提供表面纹理触觉， 来自扫描隧道电子显微镜的图像 （STM）。 扫描头产生的电势 转换成彩色图片 描绘表面几何形状。 这个装置可以增强视觉效果 输出，使多感官知觉STM，它将是 在许多其它人机交互环境中是有用的。

This work is to make available a multiple-stimulator tactile array device mounted on a mouse. This device will provide a capability for the finger to sense patterns, texture or variations in the surface of an image. It is designed specifically to provide tactile perception of surface texture in images derived from a scanning tunneling electron microscope (STM). The electrical potentials generated by the scanning tip of an STM are translated into multiple-colored pictures portraying surface geometry. This device will augment visual output to enable multi-sensory perception in STM and it will be useful in many other human-computer interacton environments.