Tactile Feedback Output Device for Scanning Tunneling Microscope

用于扫描隧道显微镜的触觉反馈输出设备

• 批准号: 9161274
• 负责人: Alfred Johnson
• 金额: $ 5万
• 依托单位: TiNi Alloy Company
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 1992
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 1992-01-01 至 1992-09-30
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=9161274&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Tactile; Feedback; Output; Device; Scanning

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.

这项工作是使安装在鼠标上的多刺激触觉阵列装置成为可能。该设备将为手指提供感知图像表面的模式、纹理或变化的能力。它是专门设计的，以提供触觉感知的表面纹理的图像，从扫描隧道电子显微镜（STM）。STM扫描尖端产生的电位被转换成描绘表面几何形状的多色图像。该设备将增强视觉输出，使STM中的多感官感知成为可能，并将在许多其他人机交互环境中发挥作用。