February 09, 2015
Bringing Texture to Flat Touchscreens: New Insight Into How Brain Understands Data From Fingers
By Shilo Rea
Roberta Klatzky, the Charles J. Queenan Jr. Professor of Psychology and Human Computer Interaction, was part of a team that developed a new mathematical model and experimental results on "haptic illusions" that could one day lead to flat screen displays featuring active touchback technology, such as making your touchscreen's keyboard actually feel like a keyboard. MORE