Frictional widgets: Enhancing touch interfaces with programmable friction

Vincent Lévesque; Nicholas D Marchuk; Louise Oram; Dan Johnson; Karon MacLean; Ed Colgate; Andy Cockburn; Michael Peshkin

doi:10.1145/1979742.1979713

Frictional widgets: Enhancing touch interfaces with programmable friction

Vincent Lévesque^*, Nicholas D Marchuk, Louise Oram, Dan Johnson, Karon MacLean, Ed Colgate, Andy Cockburn, Michael Peshkin

^*Corresponding author for this work

Mechanical Engineering

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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Abstract

Touch interactions occur through flat surfaces that lack the tactile richness of physical interfaces. We explore the design possibilities offered by augmenting touchscreens with programmable surface friction. Four exemplar applications - an alarm clock, a file manager, a game, and a text editor - demonstrate tactile effects that improve touch interactions by enhancing physicality, performance, and subjective satisfaction.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI EA 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts
Pages	1153-1158
Number of pages	6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979713
State	Published - Jun 8 2011
Event	29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011 - Vancouver, BC, Canada Duration: May 7 2011 → May 12 2011

Other

Other	29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2011
Country	Canada
City	Vancouver, BC
Period	5/7/11 → 5/12/11

Keywords

Haptics
Tactile feedback
Touch screen

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Lévesque, V., Marchuk, N. D., Oram, L., Johnson, D., MacLean, K., Colgate, E., Cockburn, A., & Peshkin, M. (2011). Frictional widgets: Enhancing touch interfaces with programmable friction. In CHI EA 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts (pp. 1153-1158) https://doi.org/10.1145/1979742.1979713

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Frictional widgets : Enhancing touch interfaces with programmable friction. / Lévesque, Vincent; Marchuk, Nicholas D; Oram, Louise; Johnson, Dan; MacLean, Karon; Colgate, Ed; Cockburn, Andy; Peshkin, Michael.

CHI EA 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts. 2011. p. 1153-1158.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

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