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Messaging: Touch Also Transmits Emotion
From birth to death, touch is the first and the last sense we experience. It is ancient, deep, instantaneous, and emotionally direct. It can convey intimacies, exclamations, and intentions that are lost in text, pictures, or even the spoken word.
Touch runs deep; users can project emotion by appending touch sensations to text and multimedia messages.
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Transformational Touch Communication
For the first time, we have the means to convey touch sensations across distances, through networks, mediated by devices each of us carries close to our person during most of our waking hours. Allowing this capability may be as simple as extending common wireless messaging protocols like MMS to carry tactile payloads, allowing a prepackaged haptic high-five to reach our school buddy across town. Or for someone special, a note that says “I’m thinking of you” wrapped in the sensation of a heartbeat accelerating.
Perhaps the capability will be woven deeper into the fabric of new device input capabilities like touchscreens, accelerometers, and cameras, coupled with always-on streaming data. We at Immersion don’t know exactly how these mobile tactile communication scenarios will play out, but we’re pretty sure our TouchSense® players, authoring tools, and multimedia extensions are going to help make it happen. That’s a confidence born of 15 years as the world leader in haptic technologies.
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If you’re a designer, handset OEM, network operator, or third-party developer and share our sense for the high-touch future of mobile communications, please do get in touch with us.
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