Feel who's talking: Using tactons for mobile phone alerts

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 604-609

  Brown, Lorna M ^a   Kaaresoja, Topi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b NOKIA RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Mobile computing; Mobile phones; Non visual interaction; Tactile displays; Tactile icons

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX INFORMATION; MULTIDIMENSIONAL INFORMATION; NON-VISUAL INTERACTION; RECOGNITION RATES; SENSE OF TOUCH; TACTILE DISPLAY; TACTILE ICONS; TACTONS; VIBRATION FEEDBACK; VIBRATION MOTOR; VIBROTACTILE;

HUMAN ENGINEERING; MOBILE COMPUTING; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; TELEPHONE SETS;

CELLULAR TELEPHONES;

EID: 84869117159     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1125451.1125577     Document Type: Conference Paper

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