This may be a little off the original starting point, but I expect these keyboarding problems to begin to subside soon, at least for newer designs, as the primary problems with haptic feedback seem to be getting solved. Here is a demo of a fingertip feedback layer added to the Iphone from the last CES:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7xkiy0K2BE The company developing this product is "Artificial Muscle" but several engineers I know doing more basic development elsewhere have been promising the ability to get further than this, and fairly soon. (Of course, you know engineers, so take that with a grain of salt.) Personally I cannot use touchscreens at all without out feeling a sense of unreality. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Posted from the new ixda.org http://www.ixda.org/discuss?post=38144 ________________________________________________________________ Welcome to the Interaction Design Association (IxDA)! To post to this list ....... [email protected] Unsubscribe ................ http://www.ixda.org/unsubscribe List Guidelines ............ http://www.ixda.org/guidelines List Help .................. http://www.ixda.org/help
