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Touch and Go — Designing Haptic Feedback for a Hand-Held Mobile Device

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Increasingly, our mobile devices are acquiring the ability to be aware of their surroundings. These devices are also acquiring the ability to sense what is happening to them — how they are being held and moved. The coincidence of connectedness, awareness and richly multimodal input and output capabilities brings into the hand a device capable of supporting an entirely new class of haptic or touch-based interactions, where gestures can be captured and reactions to these gestures conveyed as haptic feedback directly into the hand. Thus, one can literally shake the hand of a friend, toss a file off one's PDA, or be led by the hand to a desired location in a strange city. In this paper I will propose that, for the mobile user negotiating these multiple frames of reference for their actions, a better understanding of the senses of touch, of the body's motion and its sense of its own motion, may be the key to providing a meaningful bridge between these interleaved and interdependent spaces.

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O'Modhrain, S. Touch and Go — Designing Haptic Feedback for a Hand-Held Mobile Device. BT Technology Journal 22, 139–145 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1023/B:BTTJ.0000047592.21315.ce

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