Abstract
Although the integration of tactile feedback within the humancomputer interface could have considerable benefits this channel of communication is often overlooked or, at most, employed on an ad hoc basis. One contributing factor to the reluctance of interface designers to consider using tactual feedback is the lack of established design principles for doing so. A preliminary set of principles for tactile interface design are described. These have been constructed using the findings of a study into the presentation of music notation to blind people.
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This research has been funded by the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (award ref. 96309035). We would like to thank Intellitools Inc. (55 Leveroni Court, Suite #9, Novata, CA. 94949) for providing an Intellikeys touchpad to help with the practical aspects of this research.
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Challis, B.P., Edwards, A.D. (2001). Design principles for tactile interaction. In: Brewster, S., Murray-Smith, R. (eds) Haptic Human-Computer Interaction. Haptic HCI 2000. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2058. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-44589-7_2
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