From: owner-3dui@hitl.washington.edu on behalf of Doug Bowman [bowman@vt.edu] Sent: Friday, January 26, 2001 11:01 AM To: 3dui List; VE Research Group Subject: small, light force sensors A friend of mine who's a civil engineer pointed out these devices to me: http://www.tekscan.com/flexiforce/flexiforce.html They mention VR as a potential application, and it certainly seems they could be used to augment the capabilities of gloves, for example, by specifying that it takes a certain amount of force to pick up a certain object, or to activate a certain control. --Doug -- Doug A. Bowman, Ph.D. Phone: (540) 231-2058 Computer Science (0106) Fax: (540) 231-6075 Virginia Tech bowman@vt.edu Blacksburg, VA 24061 www.cs.vt.edu/~bowman/