Guiding Principles for Tactile Technology: Implications from Theory and Empirical Findings

Abstract

There is an extensive literature on tactile interfaces and their overall importance to human-computer interaction is increasing. In this presentation we critically examine the psychological, computer science, engineering, and human factors literatures for tactile devices. Two major classes of principles emerge: those taken directly from authors' publications and those synthesized from the literature. Over 800 specific principles emerged from our work. We developed a structure for organizing the principles and offer the principles for specific guidance to researchers and practitioners.