In the workforce, the operating room, and at home, haptic technology could turn touch into something more meaningful. So much of our standard technology already capitalizes on human touch—smartphones, ...

Today’s smartphones and tablets have made us all pretty familiar with touch screen technology, but its origin actually goes back to the mid-1960s. The first commercially available touch screens ...

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In a series of experiments in the 1980s, Roland Johansson, a professor of physiology at Sweden’s University of Umea, demonstrated just how important touch is. In one, he filmed a woman picking up a ...

How can haptic feedback, which uses vibrations to simulate real touch sensations, be improved to provide more accurate data to users? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address ...

Touch-screen technology has found use in devices ranging from cell phones to supermarket checkouts. While implementing a touch screen may involve additional expenses above other methods of input, it ...

Bumps and lines make up touch-based technology such as Braille. But the human sense of touch is keen enough to detect differences that are much smaller. Research by Charles Dhong and his group at the ...

Touch sensitive displays have changed the way we interact with electronic devices everyday, evolving from single to multi-touch displays that can recognize multiple contacts. Now researchers at Disney ...

CEO at BrightHR and COO at the Peninsula Group, responsible for the global rollout of HR tech supporting over 44,000 organizations. The last two-plus years have highlighted just how much we rely on ...

Electromechanical switches are simple, cheap, and widely available (Fig. 1). However, they’re also plagued with a number of disadvantages, including wear with repeated use, and the potential for ...

Design enthusiast Lisa Vanderpump partners with Febreze to bring ‘touch-n-sniff’ experiences to hundreds of homes CINCINNATI--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Febreze has reinvented the way people refresh their homes ...