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PuyoSheet and PuyoDots: simple techniques for adding "button-push" feeling to touch panels

Published: 04 April 2009 Publication History

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Two simple techniques for touch-panel based portable information devices are proposed. A soft-gel based transparent film named "PuyoSheet" placed over a touch panel provides button-push feeling to the fingertips. Another configuration, soft-gel based small dots, named "PuyoDots", is attached to the backside of a handheld device provides button-edge and button-push feelings to the fingertip(s) that hold the device. Preliminary evaluations indicate that proposed techniques improve "usability" and "preference" without deteriorating input speed or error rate compared with an ordinary touch panel device.

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    CHI EA '09: CHI '09 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    April 2009
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    ISBN:9781605582474
    DOI:10.1145/1520340
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    1. haptics
    2. input device
    3. tactile
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    • (2019)Back-of-Device Force Feedback Improves Touchscreen Interaction for Mobile DevicesIEEE Transactions on Haptics10.1109/TOH.2019.291151912:4(483-496)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2019
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