For the transfer of the tool manipulation by a skilled person, the representation of the feelings of manipulating tools through haptic device is useful. Thus, a variety of tool-type haptic devices are studied, but most of these devices need to be grounded or attached to the user's body. In our study, we developed a novel method to represent the virtual forces applied on tools without grounding nor attaching the device. Besides, we developed a chopsticks-shapee haptic device -- HapSticks -- as one of example applications of our method. In this paper, we also demonstrate tool-mediated interaction with the developed virtual environment and our proposed device to consider example applications of HapSticks.

Presenter(s)

Ginga Kato, Graduate School Of Information Science And Technology, Osaka University
Yoshihiro Kuroda, Graduate School Of Information Science And Technology, Osaka University, Cybermedia Center, Osaka University
Ilana Nisky, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Kiyoshi Kiyokawa, Graduate School Of Information Science And Technology, Osaka University, Cybermedia Center, Osaka University
Haruo Takemura, Graduate School Of Information Science And Technology, Osaka University, Cybermedia Center, Osaka University