The Iphone's Success And Widespread Application Of Touchscreens

Multiple research teams have long worked on restoring touch to people with prosthetic limbs. So far the researchers at Stanford University were able to send signals to the brain tissue of mice, which closely mimicked the nerve messages of touch sensors in human skin, by creating electronic sensors. Another breakthrough happen two years ago, when researchers at Case Western Reaserch University in Cleveland, Ohio, gave people with prosthetic hands a sense of touch by wiring by wiring pressure sensors on the hands to perpheral nerves in their arms. Although, a rudimentary sense of touch has been restored with

The rats were trained on a novel behavioral task designed in the ABET system from Lafayette Instrument Company; Lafayette, IN USA. Training occurred in similar manner as described for 5CSRT, where the rat was presented a white square stimulus in the center of the screen to invoke the touching behavior on Bussey-Saksida capacitive touchscreen through the insert window. The rats touched the location on this 765x1024 pixel capacitive touchscreen and received a sucrose spurt as a reward delivered through a solenoid valve (Clippard Instrument Laboratory, Inc.). The second stage of training was to get the rats to initiate the trial by breaking the tray beam, thus controlling the trial initiation. For every initiated trial, the rat was presented a white square of 275x275pixel to make the approach as stereotaxic as possible. The final stage of the training involved breaking of the IR beam passing through the insert’s window, to initiate the pattern reversal of the presented stimulus on the screen. The initial time between pattern reversal and the capacitive touch was 2sec, which was further reduced to 1sec for criterion testing. The criterion for the task was set to ~80% of In-time capacitive touches with less than 20% late

Given this correlation a two point discrimination test similar to the one conducted in this lab could be used as a quantitative measure of the dexterity in older subjects. A study by Joseph C. Stevens and Kenneth K. Choo found that tactile spatial acuity is reduced through age and “may adversely affect such diverse activities as braille reading, grasping, and maintaining balance” (1996). Tactile spatial acuity has become important in the design of technology with haptic feedback (J. B. V. Erp, 2002). For a person to be able perceive haptic feedback on a phone two or more discernible stimuli must be felt (J. B. V. Erp, 2002). Therefore, a two point differentiation test could be useful for companies designing Vibro-Tactile Displays, allowing all users to be able to access the full function of the

When you have the positioning of your hands on the keys correctly and you can

Do you want the new iPhone 7? We all want the newest gadgets . Technology has made an important role in our lives. It's the number one thing we stay on top of we do everything with technology from checking our emails, to watching our favorite television shows. Technology is used in our day to day lives let's just face it technology has made our lives easier, however, have you ever stop to realize how technology has consumed our existence, in Matt Richtel “ Attached to Technology and Paying a Price,” he illustrate to us how electronics has taken so much from us from not having normal conversations when out with family or friends to using so much we won't know how to function without it. In as much as technology being all bad for us I disagree with Richtel however, when it comes to society over using technology and having

Have you ever wanted to go back in time and meet the people that invented “the iphone”? Because if you have, don’t worry you’re not the only one. I have too. In the same way, have you ever thought about time traveling to go back a few years and meet them. Or some other crazy idea of getting back there. Well if you have, just keep reading because you about to go on an adventure.

The hand is controlled through myoelectric sensors, myo is Latin for muscle). So they are essentially muscle sensors. Through picking

“In humans touch represents a powerful form of non-verbal communication. Our sense of touch plays a fundamental role in daily life, from learning about objects to communicating with other people” (Sappi). Dr. David Eagleman is a neuroscientist; a scientist who study’s the way the brain functions. Eagleman’s main focus is for the sensatory elements, including touch. He states, “More than half the brain is devoted to processing sensory experience, and much of that sensory receptivity focuses on touch” (Sappi). Our skin is so sensitive, “your finger can detect a bump 3 microns wide, three 100ths the width of a human hair” (Sappi).

There are four kinds of touch sensations that can be identified: cold, heat, contact, and pain.

It is obvious that the different parts of the body have different tactile sensation, which is similar to my hypothesis, and the most sensitive part is the ear, and the least sensitive part is the finger. This experiment is very successful, it can be seen that the method and process are reasonable, so it can be recommended. In the end, the pain is more than just what happened to the skin tactile sensor. It has a lot to do with what happens in the brain, for example, a tiny piece of debris in a finger is extremely painful, and cutting your leg may not hurt the same. So applications are used in hospitals, doctors can determine the severity of the injury to the patient's pain. And some diseases can be found due to the different parts of the

But there has been very little effort to include haptics within the humanistic disciplines, she explains. In educational science, there is scant interest in the ergonomics of reading and writing, and its potential significance in the learning process.

Except its just hand and finger motions that let you scroll web pages, zoom in the map and photos, sign documents and play a first person shooter games.

There is considered four different groups of touchscreen technologies each with its distinct advantages and disadvantages with some of the variations containing sub groups within them: Capacitive, surface acoustic wave (SAW) and infrared (Bhalla, 2010). The focus of this article will be on infrared touchscreens, specifically traditional infrared touchscreens.

”Books will soon be obsolete in the schools...Scholars will soon be instructed through the eye. It is possible to touch every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture” (Thomas Edison). An idea that was destined for failure has now been made into the key source to get students and teachers more interacted while in a classroom setting. Tablets such as the iPad and the Microsoft surface have made this idea possible, showing students that there is another alternative to the traditional method which would be a printed version of the textbook. Tablets are portable computers that use a touchscreen as its primary input device, meaning that both keyboard and mouse are both physically located on the screen. Early Tablets were built to be

adults often use the services of licensed touchers to fulfill the body contact needs that result from decreased adult contact in our society. We hire masseuses and masseurs, barbers, and beauty specialists, and may sometimes even increase our visits to the doctor merely to get a good dose of tactile medicine. (Richmond, 2012, p.