The invention discloses a touch sensitive screen which has a face that receives a user's hand-writing via a hand-held stylus, wherein the screen vibrates so as to transmit the vibration to the stylus to simulate the sensation of writing on paper. The apparatus may modulate the amplitude and period of the electrical signal applied by the vibration exciter. A bending wave vibration may be applied to the screen. It may also have sensors to sense the velocity of movement of the stylus over the screen and modulate the vibration according to the sensed velocity. The device may make use of sampling, filters and simulation models during data manipulation. The device may vibrate the screen at a particular frequency to produce a sound effect simulating that of a pen, pencil or other writing implement writing on paper.