CIS- 106
Assignment 4: The Human-Computer Interface
Haptic feedback, often referred to as simply "haptics", is the use of the sense of touch in a user interface design to provide information to an end user. When referring to mobile phones and similar devices, this generally means the use of vibrations from the device's vibration alarm to denote that a touchscreen button has been pressed. In this particular example, the phone would vibrate slightly in response to the user's activation of an on-screen control, making up for the lack of a normal tactile response that the user would experience when pressing a physical button. The resistive force that some "force feedback" joysticks and video game steering wheels provide is another form of haptic feedback. ("What Is "haptic Feedback"?") Haptic technologies known as haptic feedback is technologies that allow users to feel a response from a system, not just see or hear a response; optimally, can replicate the sensation of feeling an object in the real life to create a virtual tactile experience. (Anderson, Greg, David L. Ferro, and Robert Hilton) Haptic feedback is a signal that you’re electronics like phones, computers, PlayStation 3 controllers, XBOX 360 controllers and other devices. It will vibrated or leave note when you are getting messages, calls, voice mail, emails, when your devices is about to die out. It also gives you a message when you change your phone or any other devices. Below there is an example of how is haptic is uses on a phone, iPhone, iPad and any other touch device. The word haptic, from the Greek (haptikos), means pertaining to the sense of touch and comes from the Greek verb haptesthai meaning to “contact” or “touch. (Park, Will) Haptic feedback uses the sense of touch to provide information to the end user when they interact with an interface. The term haptic feedback, also known to refers to the sense of touch, which consists of cutaneous