Touch screen kit speeds design process

Touch feedback reduces error rates and makes user experiences more satisfying and productive and products easier to use.

Immersion Corporation has released the TouchSense design kit for small touch screens.

The new kit, with preloaded touch feedback "effects" and easy-to-integrate hardware, enables innovative and creative product designers to rapidly prototype touch feedback in products with touchscreens of up to 6in.

In the Touch Screens 2008 report, Senior Analyst of iSuppli Corporation, Dr Jennifer Colegrove, forecasts that market size for small touchscreens will grow 25% annually from 2007 to 2013, exceeding 780 million units by 2013.

With the TouchSense design kit, designers have a solution that can capture the benefits of touch screens without loss of user productivity or satisfaction.

The change from mechanical keyboards to virtual keypads, the loss of touch feedback creates higher input error rates and user dissatisfaction.

However, research proves touch feedback in touch screens solves these problems.

It reduces error rates and makes user experiences more satisfying and productive and products easier to use.

Tens of millions of consumer devices, including mobile phones and personal navigation devices, are using Immersion's touch feedback technology to restore the familiar experience of operating mechanical controls, like pressing a button.

The TouchSense kit includes circuit boards, firmware, a touch feedback effects library, electromechanical components and documentation to speed the design process.

These components can be used to prototype touch feedback in many types of products, such as personal media players, personal navigation devices, desktop phones, multifunction printers and handheld data collection devices.

A TouchSense design kit for larger touchscreens (up to 36in) used in machine controls, ATMs, kiosks, healthcare and many other types of equipment is already available.

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