Touch screens have become very popular nowadays, in smart phones, iPods, iPads, and tablets, but all feels the same, just touching a glass. The new touch screens will allow users to feel the touch.
According to the article, The new type of touch screens will uses a small static force to control friction between a user’s finger and the touch. The proposed technology is based on the electro vibration principle, does not use any moving parts and provides a wide range of tactile feedback sensations to fingers moving across a touch surface. When combined with an interactive display and touch input, it enables the design of a wide variety of interfaces that allow the user to feel virtual elements through touch. In the case of a touch screen keyboard users would be able to feel the location of the keys, and could learn to “touch type” without looking at their hands. Read the full article at http://www.disneyresearch.com/research/projects/teslatouchuist2010.pdf
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