Spinner: A Simple Reconfigurable Haptic Interface

This paper reports on our recent development of a reconfig- urable haptic user interface. We created a system that con- sists of a dial type of controller 'Spinner,' and the virtual contoller objects. One physical controller corresponds to one virtual controller on a PC's display device, and a user can freely change the connection on the fly (i.e. associate the physical controller to another virtual controller). 'Spinner' is versatile and can be used for many purposes that need con- nections between virtual controllers and physical controllers. By using this system, a user can build a reconfigurable haptic user interface. ACM Classification H5.2 (Information interfaces and pre- sentation): User Interfaces. - Haptic I/O.