Tactile feedback for ambient awareness in mobile interactions

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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 Tactons, 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 manner. In this case, it is done by changing the tactile ‘feel’ of buttons on a touchscreen keyboard to indicate external events, for example when a friend is close by. Very short Tactons (

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Brewster, S., & Constantin, A. (2010). Tactile feedback for ambient awareness in mobile interactions. In Proceedings of the 2010 British Computer Society Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, BCS-HCI 2010. BCS Learning and Development Ltd. https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/hci2010.48

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