Thread by @Dave_Parisi

Brian Kappus (@ultraleap) on midair #haptics for automotive & I feel like I've been hearing about this for a while now. Found the midair stuff really underwhelming standing still concentrating bwithout the vibration of a car at 70 miles an hour. #SmartHaptics

Requires a 256 transducer array mounted in the center console, that thing is getting sooo much coffee spilled on it

(very common use of the singular 'haptic' here, as in "interacting with the haptic", as in a single haptic element)

Haptics & gesture in concert allowed a slight decrease in the amount of time spent looking at the visual interface.

This all seems like a long detour along the way to the injectable: just give us buttons & knobs & sliders back already!!!

I sorta feel like there's a novelty effect that's perpetually ignored with user studies of new haptics tech?

Great question: does having the windows down interfere w/midair haptics? No but AC does, if it's blowing on your hands in the middle of the center console...but where what does AC blow?

Next up: Manuel Kuehner, looking at challenges of unintended triggering of button control elements due to shaking hands, as someone with bad hand tremors even not in a car going 70 mph, feeling this one in my rattling bones. #SmartHaptics

This one's for you, @RachelPlotnick1 (talk is about energy required to push different types of buttons)

"design for an imperfect real world"