Mobile Device Haptics Creates a More Contextual and Realistic Touch User Experience

Touchscreens are quickly emerging as the preferred interface in mobile devices with dynamic and contextual user interfaces driving advanced device functionality. While touchscreens offer enormous benefits by allowing for these dynamic interfaces, the lack of feedback on traditional touchscreen devices results in a detached and imprecise experience. Haptics is being used with increasing frequency in mobile devices to restore the sense of physical sensations within a digital device. Applications of haptics have extended beyond traditional button confirmation to include gaming effects, alerts, and multi-modal UI elements that layer haptics into visual and audible feedback to create a more contextual and realistic user experience.

Immersion technology creates high definition haptic experiences in mobile devices, by taking a system level approach to haptic interface design, based on critical components:

• A quality haptics subsystem
• Embedded control software to optimize haptic effects
• Integration of haptic effects at the UI and application level.

Visit our Solutions page to learn about how to design a quality haptics subsystem and which TouchSense product is right for your mobile device.

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