Tag Archives: tactile

Organic User Interfaces

The latest edition, June 2008, of ACM’s Communications has a bumper selection of articles about Organic User Interfaces (OUIs). Organic User Interfaces have “non-planar displays that may actively or passively change shape via analog physical inputs”. The lead article describes these major attributes of OUIs:

Input equals output: where the display is the input device
Function equals [...]

Rokr E8, touchscreen with haptics and tactile targets

At last, the kind of touchscreen I’ve been waiting for – a full screen touch UI with haptic response and tactile finger targets. This is the kind of touchscreen device you could use with one hand. Look forward to seeing more developments in this direction.

Link: First Video of Moto ROKR E8’s 100% Buttonless Touch Interface [...]