New Vibrations: Immersion Adds Rich Feel to Symbian

Published by Richard Bloor at 21:51 UTC, July 19th 2009

Haptic feedback is rapidly becoming an integral part of the touch screen experience. Immersion Corporation, a leading supplier of haptic technology, has recently joined the Symbian Foundation and its technology is expected to become available to developers in the near future. This article looks at the technology, what can be achieved, and its impact on battery life.

“We have always provided an open API for developers to take advantage of the TouchSense Player. Joining the foundation will enable us to make the API available to Symbian developers, whether they be creating devices or applications that take advantage of the player,” says Dennis Sheehan, VP Touch Line of Business at Immersion Corporation. “We are also pleased to be one of the first new component technology providers to integrate our technology into the platform.”

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Tzer2

It should be interesting to see what happens if haptics can be localised to particular parts of the screen. At the moment it's a very general kind of feedback.

The discussion of how the vibration feedback feels is very interesting too, I personally don't like the way haptic feedback currently feels like it's tickling you but if it could be made more clicky I'd probably be a lot keener on using it.

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“Developers should not be saturating their applications with haptic effects,” says Dennis. “Feedback needs to enhance the user experience and overuse certainly won’t achieve that. Provide too much feedback and the user will probably turn the feature off.

Absolutely, it's great that a haptic development company realises this.

I turned off the default vibration on my 5800 and the loan N97 because I just couldn't stand it being present for every single touch, but I do appreciate the occasional vibration from things like switching it on or alerting me to a call in silent mode.

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sub.workes

Take it back to where you had it installed. hard to diagnosis over internet.

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Broken link in origina post.

gogiclare

Symbian sets are very useful many times and I love to use them.
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