Tactile stimulus presentation device

A tactile stimulus presentation device comprising:

• a stage that has an opening and an arrangement surface on which a body part of a subject is arranged thereon so as to close the opening;
• a contact member for giving a tactile stimulus to the subject by being in contact with the body part of the subject arranged on the arrangement surface of the stage through the opening;
• a drive mechanism that holds the contact member and moves the contact member in a direction substantially parallel to the arrangement surface and in a direction substantially perpendicular to the arrangement surface;
• an information setting part configured to set information to be presented by giving tactile stimulation to the subject;
• and
• a control part configured to control the drive mechanism to present the information set by the information setting part by giving tactile stimulation to the body part of the subject arranged on the arrangement surface;
• wherein
• the stage is formed by a plate supported at a predetermined position by a plate support part, and the plate supported by the plate support part is a plate arbitrarily selected from a plurality of types of plates having different sizes of the opening,
• the tactile stimulus presentation device further comprises a plate recognition part configured to recognize a type of the plate supported by the plate support part, and
• the control part is configured to control the drive mechanism so as to present, by giving tactile stimulation to a subject, information of a size corresponding to a size of the opening of the plate recognized by the plate recognition part.