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Adding haptic feedback to touch screens at the right time

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Betty Lemaire-SemailAuthors Info & Claims

ICMI '11: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on multimodal interfaces

Pages 73 - 80

https://doi.org/10.1145/2070481.2070497

Published: 14 November 2011 Publication History

Abstract

The lack of haptics on touch screens often causes errors and user frustration. However, adding haptic feedback to touch screens in order to address this problem needs to be effected at an appropriate stage. In this paper we present two experiments to explore when best to add haptic feedback during the user's interaction. We separate the interaction process into three stages: Locating, Navigation and Interaction. We compare two points in the Navigation stage in order to establish the optimal time for adding haptic feedback at that stage. We also compare applying haptic feedback at the Navigation stage and the Interaction stage to establish the latest point at which haptic feedback can be added. Combining previous research with our own, we find that the optimal time for applying haptic feedback to the target GUI at the Navigation stage is when the user reaches his destination and that haptic feedback improves user's performance only if it is added before the Interaction stage. These results should alert designers to the need to take into consideration timing when adding haptic feedback to touch screens.

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Index Terms

Adding haptic feedback to touch screens at the right time
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Haptic devices
      2. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces

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ICMI '11: Proceedings of the 13th international conference on multimodal interfaces

November 2011

432 pages

ISBN:9781450306416

DOI:10.1145/2070481

General Chairs:
Hervé Bourlard
Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
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University of Illinois, USA
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Enrique Vidal
Universitat Politécnica Valéncia, Spain
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Idiap Research Institute, Switzerland
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University of Southern California, USA
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Nicu Sebe
University of Trento, Italy

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https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCI54321.2022.9756106
Bermejo CLee LChojecki PPrzewozny DHui P(2021)Exploring Button Designs for Mid-air Interaction in Virtual Reality: A Hexa-metric Evaluation of Key Representations and Multi-modal CuesProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/34571415:EICS(1-26)Online publication date: 29-May-2021
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