Normal vision is essentially a spatial sense that often relies upon touch and movement during and after development, there is often a correlation between how an object looks and how it feels. Moreover ...

Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have invented a display technology for on-screen graphics that are both visible and haptic, meaning that they can be felt via touch. The screens are patterned with tiny ...

NYU Abu Dhabi researchers have found that the availability of both visual and haptic information for a target object significantly improves reach-to-grasp actions, demonstrating that the nervous ...

Additionally, while the audio/visual/haptic combo reduced the cognitive workload of the younger subjects, it did not do so for the older participants. This could be because the younger group expressed ...

With iPhone 6s, Apple has started to refine what will become a key feature of future touchscreen displays – and it's not the pressure-sensitive technology that enables '3D Touch'. Read more: 3D Touch ...

Tactile feedback is nothing new. It's been used in telecommunications and in entertainment for decades, and it became a standard feature in the late 1990s in mobile phones and video games – where ...

The haptic device can provide supplementary or redundant information that allows cross-referencing with the visual input from the prosthetic. This, George van Doorn and colleagues suggest will help ...