“A ball type vibro-tactile space mouse using one web camera” by Yoo, Yong, Back and Jang
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- A ball type vibro-tactile space mouse using one web camera
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A mouse is a useful input device which helps a user to do some tasks using computers with ease. Recently, many 3-dimensional input devices were developed using various kinds of sensors, e.g., gyro-sensors, acceleration sensors, magnetic sensors, ultrasonic sensors, and image sensors, etc. We developed a ball type space mouse which use a web camera to sense the spatial position of the device and can give some vibro-tactile stimulation on the user’s fingertip. By using a web camera, we tracked the ball(circle), covered with a certain color, as a marker. The diameter of the ball type mouse is 4cm, and all the circuits for controlling the vibro-tactile device and wireless communication with the host computer and a battery to supply the power are integrated in the ball.
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1. Intel Technology Journal Q2 ’98, Computer Vision Face Tracking For Use in a Perceptual Use Interface, Gary R. Bradski
2. Ho-joong Yong, Jongwon Back, and Tae-Jeong Jang, “A stereo vision based virtual reality game by using a vibrotactile device and two position sensors,” ACM SIGGRAPH 2006, July 2006.
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