Project Tactus is a fourth year undergraduate student design project which aims to further enhance the human-computer interaction by incorporating an additional layer of user-immersion to touchscreen devices. http://projecttactus.com Electrical Engineering Design Project http://eceprojects.uwaterloo.ca/

1. Stanley Au
Varun Shaji Kumar
Proposal Presentation
PROJECT TACTUS
Our Advisor
David Nairn
Our Team (Group #6)
Jason Lor
Imaduddin Mohammad
Farhan Khan
November 22nd, 2010

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3. Outline
Why?
Product Requirements
The Theory
Challenges
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4. “User Experience”
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5. Accesibility Familiarity

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Technology made intuitive

7. Texture Stimulation
Input Recognition
Real-Time Response
Low-Power Consumption
Product Requirements
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8. Electrovibration

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• Create a capacitor
– For 1st plate: Electrodes for the field.
– For the dielectric: A layer of insulation
– For the 2nd plate: The outer skin tissue

10. The Electric Field
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Challenges

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Texture Library
Safety
Fabrication
Challenges

13. Q&A
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson