A low-cost force feedback joystick and its use in PC video games

Author

Ouhyoung, Ming ; Tsai, Wu-Nan ; Tsai, Ming-Chang ; Wu, Jiann-Rong ; Huang, Chung-Hsi ; Yang, Tzong-Jer

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Inf. Eng., Nat. Taiwan Univ., Taipei, Taiwan

Volume

41

Issue

3

fYear

1995

fDate

8/1/1995 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

787

Lastpage

794

Abstract

The authors have developed a low-cost and compact force feedback joystick as a new user interface to communicate with a computer. They adopted a DC-motor powered joystick to create the illusion of force to a human hand. As applications in entertainment, without modifying the source code of the PC video games, they intercept the interrupts reserved for mouse, colormap and keyboard input and replace them with a new interrupt service routine in which force effects are added for the new PC video games. Effects such as hitting a wall, pushing a spring, reaction force of firing a hand gun, and crash of a vehicle can be easily simulated, thus making haptic simulation readily available in virtual environments

Keywords

computer games; entertainment; feedback; interactive devices; interrupts; peripheral interfaces; user interface management systems; utility programs; DC-motor powered joystick; PC video games; crash; entertainment; force effects; haptic simulation; hitting; interrupt service routine; low-cost force feedback joystick; pushing; reaction force; source code; user interface; virtual environments; Application software; Computer interfaces; Force feedback; Games; Humans; Keyboards; Mice; Springs; User interfaces; Vehicle crash testing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Consumer Electronics, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0098-3063

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/30.468083

Filename

468083