| 摘要 |
A low-cost tactile feedback mouse device (12) for providing haptic feedback to a user for enhancing interactions and manipulations in a graphical environment provided by a computer (14). The mouse device (12) includes a sensor device able to detect the movement of the mouse (12) in a planar workspace. An actuator (18) coupled to the mouse (12) housing applies an inertial force in a particular degree of freedom, preferably along an axis perpendicular to the planar workspace, where the inertial force is transmitted through the housing to the user. The actuator (8) can output the inertial force by linearly moving an inertial mass along the Z-axis. The output force is correlated with interaction of a controlled graphical object, such as a cursor, with other graphical objects in a graphical environment displayed by the host computer. The inertial force can be a pulse, vibration, texture force, or other type of force. |
