Margaret Minsky's research while affiliated with University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and other places

Citations

... Only limited interactions can be performed on a touchscreen because the screen surface is touched, not the digital world behind the screen [106]. Such an indirect touch approach is generally used in haptic systems [74,107]; however, it is not natural because the sources of visual information and haptic information do not coincide spatially [108]. Unlike the indirect touch approach, the tangible user interface is a concept that facilitates direct touch by making the boundary between the physical environment and cyber space ambiguous [109]. ...
... Various studies have been conducted on force feedback, with an emphasis on reproducing physical forces, including mechanisms using components such as a rod [1], [2] or a system utilizing wires [3]. However, these approaches have limited workspaces and require large devices due to the need for connections to fixed objects. ...