With the TouchSense® system, touchscreens can be enhanced with rich, tactile feedback created by varying the frequency, magnitude, duration, and waveshape of the vibration. Tactile feedback in a touchscreen user interface restores the tactile connection and certainty of response people like about mechanical controls. And with tactile feedback providing increased interaction, active touchscreens can be used for many more types of applications:

• Graphical buttons can provide the familiar up and down forces of physical buttons
• Menu items can supply a pulse sensation when lightly touched and a confirming push-back response when pressed
• A rocker switch can exhibit increasing or decreasing vibrations corresponding to motor or fan speed, magnitude, or other parameter
• Enter, Next, and other major and minor functions can supply a consistent feel throughout an application, allowing a user to know instinctively whether they’ve selected correctly
• Scrolling displays can provide a stop sensation when the first or last items have been reached
• Switch controls can exhibit a pop effect
• Levers can offer a click response for each possible setting

When touchscreens touch back, applications for banking, education, entertainment, hospitality, industrial, medical, retail, and transportation provide unmistakable confirmation that can help user efficiency and understanding.