http://idlemode.com/2009/01/23/future-directions-for-tactile-feedback/ Sat, 13 Mar 2010 05:30:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 http://idlemode.com/2009/01/23/future-directions-for-tactile-feedback/#comment-67023 R.Seiji » links for 2009-02-24 Tue, 24 Feb 2009 21:00:54 +0000 http://idlemode.com/?p=200#comment-67023 [...] Idlemode // Mobile User Interface Design and Development - A Punchcut Blog » Content » Future Dire... A variety of devices currently on the market provide simple forms of touch feedback, but none is an unqualified success - they all lack some aspect of physical experience, a correspondence with the way we actually interact with the world. Current tactile solutions fall short either in reconfigurability or in pre-interaction feedback. This pre-interaction feedback would provide the physical feeling of a button which the user can press or not, rather than just a tactile confirmation that they have just pressed that button. Reconfigurability would allow physically felt controls to change with the content of the display. In short, it’s easy to make static physical buttons, but not to make them disappear when not needed. And it’s easy to provide a physical sensation after the user interacts, but not to provide buttons that can be physically felt *before* the interaction is committed. (tags: hybrid theory touch) [...] [...] Idlemode // Mobile User Interface Design and Development - A Punchcut Blog » Content » Future Dire… A variety of devices currently on the market provide simple forms of touch feedback, but none is an unqualified success - they all lack some aspect of physical experience, a correspondence with the way we actually interact with the world. Current tactile solutions fall short either in reconfigurability or in pre-interaction feedback. This pre-interaction feedback would provide the physical feeling of a button which the user can press or not, rather than just a tactile confirmation that they have just pressed that button. Reconfigurability would allow physically felt controls to change with the content of the display. In short, it’s easy to make static physical buttons, but not to make them disappear when not needed. And it’s easy to provide a physical sensation after the user interacts, but not to provide buttons that can be physically felt *before* the interaction is committed. (tags: hybrid theory touch) [...]

]]> http://idlemode.com/2009/01/23/future-directions-for-tactile-feedback/#comment-67014 McGuire’s Law » Blog Archive » Enabling Technology: January 31, 2009 Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:18:05 +0000 http://idlemode.com/?p=200#comment-67014 [...] Tactile feedback [...] [...] Tactile feedback [...]

]]> http://idlemode.com/2009/01/23/future-directions-for-tactile-feedback/#comment-67013 Carnival of the Mobilists #158 - VoIP Survivor Mon, 26 Jan 2009 11:58:38 +0000 http://idlemode.com/?p=200#comment-67013 [...] thought what’s next after multi touch? Peter Odum from Idlemode provides an excellent and thorough review of the various tactile feedback solutions out there that improve on current multi touch displays. I can’t wait to have them on a future [...] [...] thought what’s next after multi touch? Peter Odum from Idlemode provides an excellent and thorough review of the various tactile feedback solutions out there that improve on current multi touch displays. I can’t wait to have them on a future [...]

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