Usability Engineering
Ambient touch: designing tactile interfaces for handheld devices
Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Active click: tactile feedback for touch panels
CHI '01 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Tactile virtual buttons for mobile devices
CHI '03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Tactile interfaces for small touch screens
Proceedings of the 16th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Haptic pen: a tactile feedback stylus for touch screens
Proceedings of the 17th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Tactile feedback for mobile interactions
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Investigating the effectiveness of tactile feedback for mobile touchscreens
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Crossmodal congruence: the look, feel and sound of touchscreen widgets
ICMI '08 Proceedings of the 10th international conference on Multimodal interfaces
HAID'06 Proceedings of the First international conference on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design
Mapping information to audio and tactile icons
Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Multimodal interfaces
Distal tactile feedback for text entry on tabletop computers
Proceedings of the 23rd British HCI Group Annual Conference on People and Computers: Celebrating People and Technology
Crosstrainer: testing the use of multimodal interfaces in situ
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Proceedings of the 8th international interactive conference on Interactive TV&Video
Designing tactile feedback for piezo buttons
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Multi-touch screens for navigating 3D virtual environments in participatory urban planning
CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Tactile effect design and evaluation for virtual buttons on a mobile device touchscreen
Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
Clip-on gadgets: expanding multi-touch interaction area with unpowered tactile controls
Proceedings of the 24th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
Evaluations of piezo actuated haptic stimulations
ACII'11 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Affective computing and intelligent interaction - Volume Part I
Adding haptic feedback to touch screens at the right time
ICMI '11 Proceedings of the 13th international conference on multimodal interfaces
HapticArmrest: remote tactile feedback on touch surfaces using combined actuators
AmI'11 Proceedings of the Second international conference on Ambient Intelligence
Reproducing materials of virtual elements on touchscreens using supplemental thermal feedback
Proceedings of the 14th ACM international conference on Multimodal interaction
Interacting with mobile devices via VoiceOver: usability and accessibility issues
Proceedings of the 24th Australian Computer-Human Interaction Conference
Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction
Haptic reference cues to support the exploration of touchscreen mobile devices by blind users
Proceedings of the Biannual Conference of the Italian Chapter of SIGCHI
Haptic feedback design for a virtual button along force-displacement curves
Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
A haptic ATM interface to assist visually impaired users
Proceedings of the 15th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility
Optimal control location for the customer-oriented design of smart phones
Information Sciences: an International Journal
Investigating the affective impression of tactile feedback on mobile devices
BCS-HCI '13 Proceedings of the 27th International BCS Human Computer Interaction Conference
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Earlier research has shown the benefits of tactile feedback for touch screen widgets in all metrics: performance, usability and user experience. In our current research the goal was to go deeper in understanding the characteristics of a tactile click for virtual buttons. More specifically we wanted to find a tactile click which is the most pleasant to use with a finger. We used two actuator solutions in a small mobile touch screen: piezo actuators or a standard vibration motor. We conducted three experiments: The first and second experiments aimed to find the most pleasant tactile feedback done with the piezo actuators or a vibration motor, respectively, and the third one combined and compared the results from the first two experiments. The results from the first two experiments showed significant differences for the perceived pleasantness of the tactile clicks, and we used these most pleasant clicks in the comparison experiment in addition to the condition with no tactile feedback. Our findings confirmed results from earlier studies showing that tactile feedback is superior to a nontactile condition when virtual buttons are used with the finger regardless of the technology behind the tactile feedback. Another finding suggests that the users perceived the feedback done with piezo actuators slightly more pleasant than the vibration motor based feedback, although not statistically significantly. These results indicate that it is possible to modify the characteristics of the virtual button tactile clicks towards the most pleasant ones, and on the other hand this knowledge can help designers to create better touch screen virtual buttons and keyboards.