Tactile Mouse System for Human Computer Interaction
Fig.1: Tactile mouse: nine-solenoid-array (left) and with a button cover
on the array (right).
Description
A 3 X 3 solenoid driven pin display unit is placed on the left button of an ordinary computer
mouse. Each pin has 0.5mm stroke.
The mouse measures 57mm(W) X 117mm(L) X 35mm(H) in size and 180g in weight.
The tactile unit displays nine different patterns, each of which corresponds to one of the nine spatial directions: North, South, East, West, NE, NW, SE, SW and Central.
