著者

上村 尚弘 森谷 哲朗 矢野 博明 岩田 洋夫

出版者

日本バーチャルリアリティ学会

雑誌

日本バーチャルリアリティ学会論文誌 = Transactions of the Virtual Reality Society of Japan (ISSN:1344011X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.8, no.4, pp.399-406, 2003-12-31

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This paper describes development of a food simulator. A taste of food arises from mixture of auditory, chemical, and force sensation. This food simulator is a haptic interface that can generate a force to user's teeth when the user bites a food. It consists of a film-like force sensor and one degree-of-freedom manipulator. The food simulator generates a food texture according to the force profile captured from a user's biting force of a real food. Then the profile of the biting force is replayed by controlling the reaction force of the device.