Researchers from Disney Research and Carnegie Mellon University have been investigating haptic interfaces that allow users to feel virtual elements through touch. Such tactile touch screens provide users with a wide variety of tactile sensations such as textures, friction and vibration.
As presented on the video, this new haptic technology enhances touch interfaces with tactile feedback. Moreover, it offers wide range of tactile feedback sensations to fingers moving across a touch surface.
What about interacting with other humans through touch-based screens? We have already wireless group video calls possible, therefore we could enrich these conversations by touch sensations. We could feel our interlocutor, touch his arm or shake his hand. And what about interacting with virtual humans? Haptic technology applied to an interactive conversational chatbot would allow the user to feel virtual elements of a chatbot through touch. Finally, after having a conversation, the user and chatbot would be patting themselves on the back…
More about this touchbased technology you can find in a paper concerning Touch Surfaces written by the above-mentioned scientists.
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