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By: Paul Neervoort

Paul Neervoort — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 15:41:31 +0000

One of my colleagues David Keyson used to do a lot of research on haptic feedback about 11 or 12 years ago. Admittedly it was on trackerball UI’s but the idea was you could feel your way around the objects displayed, whether you were moving up or down etc. But the algorithms of translating haptic behaviors to the ‘actuators’ would be still interesting to look at.

My guess is that for your dream MS would be working on it already to extend their “Surface”.

By: Lois

Lois — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 01:36:23 +0000

I do not know much about airplane simulators, but from what I’ve read they seem to use a haptic interface. Do you know anything about them?

By: Corvida Raven

Corvida Raven — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:57:24 +0000

I think that is amazing and really makes me wonder in excitement what the future of tech will be about. Thanks for sharing this!

By: Barbara Ballard

Barbara Ballard — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 16:28:52 +0000

One of the places where you can go to get these types of design concepts is TAT's mobile user interfaces blog. In particular, go see the mobile user interfaces video on Senseg. Of course be aware that Immersion is providing haptics, now, for a wide variety of situations. Games with rumble feedback, sense-able touchscreen buttons, interesting medical applications, and so forth.

By: Lynn Marentette

Lynn Marentette — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:06:45 +0000

I thought I'd share a few of my blog posts that relate to this topic in someway: Last night I dreamt about haptic touch-screen overlays... Haptic Tactile Feedback for the iPhone? MacRumors says, YES! Emerging Interactive Technologies, Emerging Interactions, and Emerging Integrated Form Factors

By: Lynn Marentette

Lynn Marentette — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 02:18:23 +0000

I’ve been thinking about haptics for a while. If designers don’t get moving quickly in this area, things won’t be too pretty in the future. Think of all the user-unfriendly entertainment center remote control devices out there right now! (There are some touch screen controllers out there now, but they are expensive. I’m not sure if they provide haptic feedback.)