Wearable haptic-based multi-modal interaction for tangible interface

Innovative developments of information and digital technologies open a new paradigm of lifestyle. Cyber space created by a computer is being developed as a complementary concept to the real world and its practical usage increases drastically. The cyber space technology enlarges the area of human-real world interaction to human-cyber-real world interaction. Tangible interface can be understood as a newly defined concept, which can provide an effective and seamless interaction between the human as a subjective existence and the cyberspace as an objective existence. Our vision is to develop various kinds of tangible interface technologies, by which users can feel reality and seamless integration to the cyber world. Especially, we developed and integrated the haptic technologies for a sense of sight, touch, hearing, and force. The scenario of haptic navigation is experimented for haptic interface with the technologies.