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Reducing Visual Dependency with Surface Haptic Touchscreens

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Haptics: Perception, Devices, Control, and Applications (EuroHaptics 2016)

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Interactions with current touchscreens are highly dependent on a pattern of visual feedback. Recently, researchers have developed surface haptic technology that provides haptic feedback on flat touchscreens. This presents an opportunity to add tactile responses to touchscreen interactions. This paper demonstrates that surface haptic feedback can improve the task completion time and accuracy of manipulating non-visual bullseye menus giving users greater confidence while performing selection tasks. Results suggest that haptic technology could be incorporated into applications on touchscreen devices to improve accuracy where the user’s visual sensory channel is not available or is already occupied by another task.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to thank both Hong Tan and Roberta Klatzky for their invaluable help in the design of the experiment. We also wish to thank Tanvas for providing the device used in this study.

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  1. School of Information, University of Michigan, 105 S. State Street, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

    Yu-Jen Lin & Sile O’Modhrain

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  1. Imperial College London, London, United Kingdom

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  2. The University of Electro-Communications, Chofu, Japan

    Hiroyuki Kajimoto

  3. University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, Japan

    Yon Visell

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Lin, YJ., O’Modhrain, S. (2016). Reducing Visual Dependency with Surface Haptic Touchscreens. In: Bello, F., Kajimoto, H., Visell, Y. (eds) Haptics: Perception, Devices, Control, and Applications. EuroHaptics 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9775. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42324-1_26

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