Tactile feedback for mobile interactions

Brewster, Stephen; Chohan, Faraz; Brown, Lorna M.

doi:10.1145/1240624.1240649

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“…Haptic feedback for touchscreens tends to appear as an augmentation of buttonbased interfaces, as in work by Brewster [12], Leung [13] and Kaaresoja [14]. Brewster in particular showed simple haptic augmentation was beneficial for entering text on a small virtual keyboard.…”

Section: Haptics and Touchscreensmentioning

confidence: 98%

No-Look Notes: Accessible Eyes-Free Multi-touch Text Entry

Bonner

Brudvik

Abowd

et al. 2010

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. Mobile devices with multi-touch capabilities are becoming increasingly common, largely due to the success of the Apple iPhone and iPod Touch. While there have been some advances in touchscreen accessibility for blind people, touchscreens remain inaccessible in many ways. Recent research has demonstrated that there is great potential in leveraging multi-touch capabilities to increase the accessibility of touchscreen applications for blind people. We have created No-Look Notes, an eyes-free text entry system that uses multi-touch input and audio output. No-Look Notes was implemented on Apple's iPhone platform. We have performed a within-subjects (n = 10) user study of both No-Look Notes and the text entry component of Apple's VoiceOver, the recently released official accessibility component on the iPhone. No-Look Notes significantly outperformed VoiceOver in terms of speed, accuracy and user preference.

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Section: Haptics and Touchscreensmentioning

confidence: 98%

No-Look Notes: Accessible Eyes-Free Multi-touch Text Entry

Bonner

Brudvik

Abowd

et al. 2010

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Innovation in these areas has explored usage of sensory modalities other than vision -for example, speech recognition 77 , non-speech auditory feedback 17 , haptic (touch-based) feedback 18 , and multimodal input 105,76 (which combines different sensory modalities) -to reduce dependence on visual interaction 19,107,21 . Recent advances in the likes of vibrotactile, text-to-speech (TTS), and gestural recognition systems have consequently opened up scope for increased accessibility to devices for persons with visual impairment.…”

Section: Mobile Devices Made Accessible For Visually-impaired Usersmentioning

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Mobile assistive technologies for the visually impaired

Hakobyan

Lumsden

O’Sullivan

et al. 2013

Survey of Ophthalmology

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This is the accepted version of the paper.This version of the publication may differ from the final published version. Permanent repository link AbstractThere are around 285 million visually-impaired people worldwide, and around 370,000 people are registered as blind or partially sighted in the UK A . On-going advances in information technology (IT) are increasing the scope for IT-based mobile assistive technologies to facilitate the independence, safety, and improved quality of life of the visually impaired. Research is being directed at making mobile phones and other handheld devices accessible via our haptic (touch) and audio sensory channels. We review research and innovation within the field of mobile assistive technology for the visually impaired and, in so doing, highlight the need for successful collaboration between clinical expertise, computer science, and domain users to realize fully the potential benefits of such technologies. We initially reflect on research which has been conducted to make mobile phones more accessible to people with vision loss. We then discuss innovative assistive applications designed for the visually impaired that are either delivered via mainstream devices and can be used while in motion (e.g., mobile phones) or are embedded within an environment that may be in motion (e.g., public transport) or within which the user may be in motion (e.g., smart homes).

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“…Therefore, many researchers consider haptic feedback as playing a central role in touch-screen-based typing tasks. Brewster et al [3] studied the effects of tactile feedback on soft keyboard typing using a stylus on PDAs. For tactile feedback, they attached a commercial tactor to the backside of the device.…”

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Text Entry Performance Evaluation of Haptic Soft QWERTY Keyboard on a Tablet Device

Han

Kim

Yatani

et al. 2014

Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications

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Abstract.Recently touch screens are widely used for mobile devices to provide intuitive and natural interactions with fingertips. However, the lack of tactile feedback makes it difficult for users to receive key-click confirmation during text entry on soft keyboards. This paper examines the effect of tactile feedback on typing performance with the soft QWERTY keyboard: the most commonly used multifinger text entry method on tablet devices. We implemented tactile feedback hardware and software to simulate the key-click effect on a commerciallyavailable mobile tablet (Microsoft Surface Pro). We conducted a typing experiment to measure user performance and preference. The participants transcribed given phrases under three sensory feedback conditions: visual only, visual and audio, and visual and tactile. The results are unexpected; we did not find any significant difference in terms of typing performance, and user preference was as positive as the audio condition though better received than the visual only condition. This study thus reports different findings from previous work studying text entry on handheld devices, encouraging further examinations to fully understand the effect of tactile feedback on text entry in tablet devices.

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Tactile feedback for mobile interactions

Cited by 239 publications

References 8 publications

No-Look Notes: Accessible Eyes-Free Multi-touch Text Entry

No-Look Notes: Accessible Eyes-Free Multi-touch Text Entry

Mobile assistive technologies for the visually impaired

Text Entry Performance Evaluation of Haptic Soft QWERTY Keyboard on a Tablet Device

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