Tactile Feedback Output Device for Scanning Tunneling Microscope

这项工作是为了提供一种安装在鼠标上的多刺激器触觉阵列设备。该设备将为手指提供感知图像表面的图案、纹理或变化的能力。它专门设计用于在从扫描隧道电子显微镜(STM)获得的图像中提供表面纹理的触觉感知。扫描隧道显微镜的扫描尖端产生的电势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能够进行多感官感知，并将在许多其他人机交互环境中使用。

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.