Wikipedia says:
- Haptic communication: the means by which people and other animals communicate via touching.
- Haptic perception: the process of recognizing objects through touch.
- Haptic technology: technology that interfaces with the user through the sense of touch.
H_aptic_ (from the Greek haptesthai, meaning “to touch”). By the middle of the 20th century, it had developed a psychological sense, describing individuals whose perception supposedly depended primarily on touch rather than sight. In general and in a digital space, the haptics tells the user what’s happening on the interface. Sometimes the ‘interface’ speaks, and sometimes the product itself.
Did you ever try to visualize a phone without vibration?
No right?
Going back to the 1990s, when the first-ever mobile phone (with digital cellular/SIM card) was introduced to the world, we didn’t get a chance to ask the founder “why did you think of a vibration on a mobile phone?”, but whoever it was, today people could never imagine a phone which doesn’t support vibration.
Why are we talking about this now?
The digital world is evolving and everything is getting replaced, mobiles, computers, cars…