Product category: Displays
News Release from: Immersion Corp
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial Team on 11 June 2004
Alliance to bring
haptics to control panels
Advanced Input Systems has signed a worldwide technology licence agreement to incorporate Immersion's TouchSense haptics technology into its products
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The agreement fulfils Advanced Input's strategic objective to partner with leading technology companies to provide cutting edge human-machine interface technologies. The agreement realises Immersion's goal to enter markets where haptics can significantly enhance the performance and functionality of user interface devices.
"Users of our products have been primarily reliant on sight and sound for control verification", says Brad Lawrence, President of Advanced Input Systems.
"Now, with Immersion's haptic technology, they will be able to trust their sense of touch for more intuitive, rapid, and precise control".
TouchSense technology enables controls to provide context-sensitive response.
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Depending on the stage of operation, a dial might respond with limited rotation, variable detents, or produce a spring or damping effect.
Control panel usability can be vastly improved when users can differentiate control positions and navigate functions by feel in addition to sight.
Immersion programmable rotary technology can reduce space requirements by consolidating single-function controls into an easy-to-use multifunctional design.
"The Immersion and Advanced Input partnership creates a sound business model for rapidly expanding Immersion's programmable rotary technology into the medical equipment and industrial markets", states Tim Tight, Vice President and General Manager, Immersion's Industrial Business Group.
"Through Advanced Input's strong market leadership position and international sales force, we are offering OEMs worldwide a technology that can transform control panel usability".
"Our technology provides a source of very competitive product differentiation for them".
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