Mattis Obermann | Vibrotactile Interfaces

The project Vibrotactile Interfaces examines to what extent tactile feedback in physical user interfaces is able to provide the user with clues about the state of the device. This intuitive application increases contextual awareness and reduces the need for visual monitoring. It resulted in a proposal for several interaction scenarios that were prototyped on the framework of six user interface archetypes. These best practice examples provide haptic design principles and highlight challenges and opportunities encountered in the development of tactile user interface elements.