Enhancing the User Experience Through the Sense of Touch
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Touchscreens have become the default UI in mobile devices, but with their adoption, the lack of tactile feedback is a common complaint. The best applications today, involve multi-sensory – HD graphics and quality sound are no longer sufficient to stand out from the crowd. Haptics (vibration touch feedback) lets people feel what is going on in advance – powering intuitive experiences. Haptics can add a sense of realism which is unexpected in mobile applications. Android developers can now offer different haptic effects in mobile applications by leveraging new free tools and solutions that easily integrate haptic effects feedback into their designs. In this session Immersion’s Haptic Expert Team, will demonstrate how to enhance the user experience, differentiate your applications from the hundreds and thousands of apps in the market and take your application to the next level of interactions. The presentation will introduce the concept of haptic feedback, development tools, and good design principles for creating haptic effects for mobile apps.
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- 1. Peter van der Linden TechnologyEvangelist February 2013 NASDAQ: IMMR Touch Design for Mobile Devices ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential
- 2. Agenda: § Who is Immersion? § What does touch feedback or tactile design mean? § Why is touch feedback essential to the mobile UI? § How can touch feedback be used to improve the UX? § What are the best design practices for tactile feedback? § Can you show me some of these principles? ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential 2
- 3. Who is Immersion? Company Highlights Immersion: The Haptics Company NASDAQ: IMMR Technology Leader Developing tactile touch solutions also known as Established in Large, Rapidly “Haptics” since 1993 Growing Markets Technology shipped in over 1B devices § Mobile phones, game controllers, auto, industrial, casino, other portable devices World Class Customer Base Samsung, Nokia, LG, Toshiba, Fujitsu, Sony, Microsoft, Logitech, Lexus, BMW, CAE and many more Strong Intellectual Property Portfolio of 1,200+ granted and pending patents specifically in the Worldwide Support field of Haptics related to both Offices in EU, Korea, Taiwan, hardware and software Japan, US & Canada ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential
- 5. The Mobile User ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential 5
- 6. Point 1 - our sense of touch works with our Agency TBWANeboko Photo: Michael Harvey embedded cognition to guide the user experience. ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential © 2011 Immersion Corporatio
- 7. • keep in touch • itching to go • make contact with • how does that grab you? • get a grip • i feel edgy • he rubs me the wrong way • she’s touchy • standing on pins and needles • a hands-off policy • like a slap in the face • a palpable lie• the personal touch • a slimy character • hold your own • touch and go • s t r e t c h the imagination • can you handle it? • a clinging personality • makes my skin crawl • walking on egg shells • grasp an idea a gripping experience • he’s tactful • a touching experience • i’m deeply touched• she’s tactless • put on the finishing touches • a rough character • be on your toes • don’t be pushy solid reputation • • like a kick in the teeth • only scratched the surface ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential • a mere slap on the wrist 7
- 8. Solo! ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential © 2011 Immersion Corporatio
- 9. Design principle #1 Use Haptics to create more usable user experiences ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential © 2011 Immersion Corporatio
- 10. Agency TBWANeboko Photo: Michael Harvey Point 2 - touch feedback fills a need for tactile gratification that is not possible in other media. CBS News Photo: Walter Geis ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential © 2011 Immersion Corporatio
- 11. Design principle #2 Use Haptics to create more realistic user experiences ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential © 2011 Immersion Corporatio
- 12. Agency TBWANeboko Photo: Michael Harvey Point 3 - tactile feedback makes human communication more intimate and emotional. ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential © 2011 Immersion Corporatio
- 13. ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential © 2011 Immersion Corporatio
- 14. Design principle #3 Use Haptics to create more emotional user experiences ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential © 2011 Immersion Corporatio
- 15. Tactile feedback effects beyond games ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential 15
- 16. Shared tactile game experience ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential 16
- 17. Tactile feedback clock for everyone Tactile Clock Allows you to feel the time. 17 ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential
- 18. Summary: design with Tactile Feedback § Make the phones feel more usable § Make apps feel more satisfying § Bring friends within arm’s reach 18 ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential
- 19. Haptic SDK Quick Start Guide 19 ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential
- 20. Haptic Effect Preview App on Google Play 20 ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential
- 21. Haptic Effect Preview App § Free app on Google Play § Feel each effect on any Android device § Code sample provided for each effect § Awesome on Android handsets with TouchSense installed by Samsung, LG, Toshiba, Pantech and others § Emulates effects on all other Android devices without the TouchSense technology – Allows vibe effects not available with standard Google vibrate () method ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential
- 22. Touch Trails Demo 22 ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential
- 26. Contact Us Hap$csDev@immersion.com Like Us h3p://www.facebook.com/ImmersionDeveloper Follow Us @Hap$csDev Read Our Blog h3p://blog.immersion.com Direct Access: Peter van der Linden plinden@immersion.com 26 ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential
- 27. § The end. 27 ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential
- 28. Two-way interactive tactile feedback 28 ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential
- 29. Benefits of the Immersion extended method Google Vibrate Immersion Extended Method Inferior battery usage: only controls Very efficient use of battery: the duration of vibration control over duration, magnitude and frequency of vibration 1 basic effect – full magnitude w/ Library of 124 pre-made gaming and durations set manually user interface effects Ineffective for longer duration Ideal for longer game effects, only gives you buzz duration subtle game effects Unreliable feel across Android Most consistent feel across devices due to different motor types ALL Android devices ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential 29
- 30. PUSH THE BUTTON ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential © 2011 Immersion Corporatio
- 31. Tactile videos – feel video content Feel the person on the other side of the video 31 ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential
- 32. Vibration parameter comparison Immersion Google Vibrate Extended Method Duration Magnitude Frequency pulsing Complex timeline design using sound Dynamic API functions of all the above parameters ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential 32
- 33. Top reasons to use tactile feedback effects #5 Increased sense of realism. “Feels like the real world” #4 Increased immersion thru combined audio/visual/touch effects #3 Greater user satisfaction. It is already expected from games #2 Increased stickiness. Greater connection to game play and UI And the #1 reason to use tactile effects… #1 The potential for increased revenue for your apps Hardware OEMs like Fujitsu, Samsung, LG, Toshiba and others are actively looking for good feeling apps and games to load onto their new handset and tablet products as a competitive advantage against their number one competitor Apple. 33 ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential
- 34. Programming tactile effects into mobile apps 34 ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential
- 35. Programming tactile effects in Android There are over 600 Android device manufacturers with over 7000 models of handsets and tablets. While there are many platforms that support vibration playback, the Android platform has the greatest opportunity for generating revenue for your Haptic games simply because of the sheer number of Android devices being sold by the hardware OEMs To promote this opportunity, Immersion created a free extended method for developers to quickly add Haptic effects into their games. We call this the… “Immersion Haptic Development Platform for Android” 35 ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential
- 36. Summary! Nearly all operating systems allow you program vibration events into your applications. But not all methods are created equal. Find a picture for this 36 ©2012 Immersion Corporation–Confidential