Tactile feedback for ambient awareness in mobile interactions (original) (raw)

Brewster, S.A. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9720-3899 and Constantin, A.(2010) Tactile feedback for ambient awareness in mobile interactions. In: 24th BCS Conference on Human Computer Interaction - HCI2010, Dundee, UK, 6-10 Sep 2010,

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Abstract

The study of tactile feedback has attracted increasing interest in HCI over recent years. Similar to icons, tactile messages, or Tac-tons, can encode and transmit information through the touch sense [1]. We report an experiment to investigate if we can present contextual information to a user in a low attention, ambient man-ner. In this case, it is done by changing the tactile ‘feel’ of buttons on a touchscreen keyboard to indicate external events, for exam-ple when a friend is close by. Very short Tactons (<=300ms) on each key press were changed in roughness and rhythm to indicate the events. Results showed that users correctly identified the Tactons for the different events with a rate of 88% when 180 Tactons were presented in 45 minutes, and 98% when the Tactons were presented in a more realistic manner. This shows that chang-ing tactile feedback can be an effective method of presenting ambient information on a mobile device.

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