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Abstract

To facilitate the monitoring of spatial and haptic movement and to provide tactile feedback, the invention replaces sheath-like glove human/computer interface devices with a manually operable exo-skeletal human/computer interface device (10) which comprises a wrist encircling means (11A, 11B) and a palm encircling means (16C) and a torsionally and laterally flexible manner (16D) connecting said wrist and palm encircling means, with said wrist encircling means being adapted in use to be proximate to and generally relatively fixed around the associated wrist of one hand of a user, with said palm encircling means being adapted in use to be proximate to and relatively fixed around the palm of said hand, with said palm encircling means having an overhand member (16B) overlying the back of said hand, further comprising at least one elongate generally resilient rib member (10A, 10B) extending at a fixed end thereof from said overhand member so as to be generally coextensive with at least one finger of said hand in order to function in the form of an exoskelton thereto, adjacent a free end of said rib member at least one annular ring formation (14) which is adapted in use to receive and engage at least one finger of the said hand, and at least one position sensor of the computer system fixed relative to at least one of the said members.

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First Claim