Today’s smartphones and tablets have made us all pretty familiar with touch screen technology, but its origin actually goes back to the mid-1960s. The first commercially available touch screens ...

In the workforce, the operating room, and at home, haptic technology could turn touch into something more meaningful. So much of our standard technology already capitalizes on human touch—smartphones, ...

There’s no doubt that multi-touch technology has fundamentally reshaped the ways in which we interact with computers on a daily basis. From smartphones to tablets, multi-touch devices have become a ...

How can haptic feedback, which uses vibrations to simulate real touch sensations, be improved to provide more accurate data to users? This is what a recent study published in Science hopes to address ...

Touch sensitive displays have changed the way we interact with electronic devices everyday, evolving from single to multi-touch displays that can recognize multiple contacts. Now researchers at Disney ...

CEO at BrightHR and COO at the Peninsula Group, responsible for the global rollout of HR tech supporting over 44,000 organizations. The last two-plus years have highlighted just how much we rely on ...

Bumps and lines make up touch-based technology such as Braille. But the human sense of touch is keen enough to detect differences that are much smaller. Research by Charles Dhong and his group at the ...

Touch-screen technology has found use in devices ranging from cell phones to supermarket checkouts. While implementing a touch screen may involve additional expenses above other methods of input, it ...

Electromechanical switches are simple, cheap, and widely available (Fig. 1). However, they’re also plagued with a number of disadvantages, including wear with repeated use, and the potential for ...

Australian researchers have developed cutting-edge technology known as "acoustic touch" that helps people 'see' using sound. The technology has the potential to transform the lives of those who are ...