Bringing texture to your flat touchscreen with virtual bumps

9 febrero 2015

What if the touchscreen of your smartphone or tablet could touch you back? Researchers now report a discovery that provides insight into how the brain makes sense of data from fingers. When people draw their fingers over a flat surface with two ‘virtual bumps,’ the researchers found that, under certain circumstances, the subjects feel only one bump when there really are two. And the researchers can explain why the brain comes to this conclusion.
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/~3/3VK9ycoUYjI/150209161425.htm

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