Adding Haptic Effects to Graphical User Interfaces


Ian Oakley, University of Glasgow.

This talk will summarise the work that Marilyn Mcgee and I have been doing over the last year. We have been looking at ways to improve low level interactions with simple widgets through adding haptic feedback. Two experiments will be described, the first focuses on comparing a variety of different forms of haptic feedback in a simple, and consequently artificial, targeting task. The second concentrates on a more realistic task in which a haptically enhanced scrollbar is compared to a solely visual scrollbar in a task where users have to parse a long list of data to locate certain items.