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Hendrik Richter
Multi-Haptics and Personalized Tactile Feedback on Interactive Surfaces Symposium on Haptic and Audio-visual Stimuli: Enhancing Experiences and Interaction, EuroHaptics 2010, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, July 2010, CTIT Proceedings (WP10-01). ISSN 0929-0672 (bib) |
Tactile feedback on interactive surfaces such as touch-screens provides significant benefits in terms of reducing error-rates, enhancing interaction-speed and minimizing visual distraction. However, current digital multitouch surfaces do not present any tactile information to the interacting user. Existing scientific approaches to provide tactile feedback on direct-touch-surfaces share the assumption that haptic feedback has to be given at the location of the interaction. We propose spatially disuniting the body-part of interaction (finger, hand) and the resulting tactile feedback. This approach is potentially beneficial for providing multi-haptic feedback on multi-touch surfaces and the communication of additional personalized information via the sense of touch. In the paper, we describe the potential benefits of our approach, present three first prototypes and discuss our current findings and intended future work. |