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Could haptic feedback be “granular” enough to mimic specific shapes of knobs and switches?
by domevent 9y ago
Could haptic feedback be “granular” enough to mimic specific shapes of knobs and switches?
- pasbesoin 9y agoIntroduce vibration. Physical controls give you a topology to orient to. A flat screen doesn't. Every control becomes an exercise in sustained hand-eye coordination. Talk about your distracted driving -- or flying. Can haptic feedback really help with that? (Serious question: I haven't had the opportunity.)
- mkempe 9y agoThat's one crucial aspect of the problem. My fingers can navigate across physical controls, simply using my sense of touch, without triggering any of them until I exert sufficient pressure. Could this be emulated in theory with haptic feedback? possibly, but nobody is offering such flat-screen UIs at the moment.
- digi_owl 9y agoOne reason i actually liked resistive screens, because i could rest my fingers on it without triggering anything.
- dkersten 9y agoProbably. I’ve experienced a haptic device that made it feel like I was pushing my hand through sand, so making it feel like knobs and switches must be possible. I also remember seeing something once where haptic feedback was used to make a flat surface feel like a keyboard.