An experiment about how to feel temperature change of mouse

Abstract

Recently, some methods of using thermal information on computer interaction are considered. In order to utilize the thermal information more effectively, it is extremely important to understand how to feel the user to use the thermal information. A "mouse" is generally used when the computer is operated the index finger is used for it while coming in contact. Then, the thermal information is presented the point of the index finger through the mouse. The mouse is installed the Peltier device in the part that touches the tip of index finger, and can present the thermal information to the computer assisted user by warming and cooling the Peltier device. In the first experiment, it was experimented by ME (Magnitude Estimation) method to clarify user's how to feel it and the characteristic to the thermal stimulation. As a result, it was confirmed that the proportion of the degree of the change in user's sense to the degree of the change in presented thermal information. In the second experiment, it was experimented by using the control knob to understand the tendency of the time progress to how feel the user about the temperature. As a result, some features were found about how to the temporal variation of the temperature stimulus to feel the user. © 2011 Springer-Verlag.