Scientists and developers at Texas A&M University are working on a new smart screen technology that will allow users to actually feel textures through the screen.
If and when this technology reaches the consumer and businesses, it could potentially allow for shoppers to feel furniture, for example, without being required to physically feel and see objects in person before buying or using. The number of possibilities would be seemingly endless.
This could allow you to actually feel textures, buttons, slides and knobs on the screen. It can be used for interactive touch screen-based displays, but one holy grail would certainly be being able to bring touch into shopping so that you could feel the texture of fabrics and other products while you’re shopping online.
When we look at virtual experiences, they’re primarily audio and visual right now and we can get audio and visual overload. Being able to bring touch into the human-machine interface can bring a lot more capability, much more realism, and it can reduce that overload. Haptic effects can be used to draw your attention to make something easier to find or easier to do using a lower cognitive load.
We’re looking at electro-wetting effects (the forces that result from an applied electric field), electrostatic effects, changes in properties of the finger, the material properties and surface geometry of the device, the contact mechanics, the fluid motion, charge transport — really, everything that’s going on in the interface to understand how the device can be designed to be more reliable and higher performing.
Ultimately, our goal is to create predictive models than enable a designer to create devices with maximum haptic effect and minimum sensitivity to user and environmental variation.
Cynthia Hipwell, chair of A&M’s Department of Mechanical Engineering and lead researcher – whose statements can be found in the journal of Advanced Materials
Hipwell and the research team say that early prototypes are already underway, and this technology could be implemented by five years or so.
I think early elements of it will definitely be within the next five years. Then, it will just be a matter of maturing the technology and how advanced, how realistic and how widespread it becomes.
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