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Haptic Solutions

All constituencies in the mobile ecosystem and supply chain have a role in improving the mobile user experience through touch.

Haptic Solutions: Handset Manufacturers

By adding full-fidelity touch feedback to their handsets, handset manufacturers:

  • Improve usability
  • Invigorate their industrial designs
  • Differentiate their device offerings
  • Support operator needs for innovative applications and services

Read more about steps to haptic handset integration

How Do You Integrate Haptics in a Mobile Phone?

  1. Select the TouchSense® Player – 3000 Series, which is suited to the mobile phone form factor and feature set.
  2. Select actuators and drive ICs from the list of TouchSense® Certified components to optimize haptic performance at a given price point. Immersion does not sell mobile component hardware, but works actively with top component manufacturers to qualify and refine their parts offerings.
  3. Integrate TouchSense Player firmware into the handset software stack. The Players have been pre-ported to most major chipset/OS combinations, and have modest memory, CPU, and timing needs. Immersion Application Engineering Services can facilitate ports to new or unusual target configurations.
  4. Incorporate haptic effects into UI interactions and embedded applications. User experience designers can select from libraries of pre-crafted effects suitable for the most common application use cases, or they can choose to create customized haptic effects using the TouchSense Studio authoring tool.

At all stages of the design and development process, Immersion Application Engineering Services stands ready to assist with:

  • Remote or on-site porting
  • Haptic user experience design
  • Application integration
  • Haptic effects artistry