The Big Fat Soft-key™
CAN WE MAKE SMARTPHONES SMARTER?
The market share of smartphones is
increasing at breath-taking pace. Large display screens
with touchscreen functionality have become the norm and
have opened up huge possibilities for the mobile handset
user, including extended apps, an improved gaming
experience and intuitive web browsing, to name but a
few.
Touchscreen controllers enable the user to efficiently select relatively small items such as icons, links and keyboard buttons. However there are situations that require a single command to be quickly or repeatedly implemented where a touchscreen is not the most desirable or ergonomic input solution. A few examples are:
Touchscreen controllers enable the user to efficiently select relatively small items such as icons, links and keyboard buttons. However there are situations that require a single command to be quickly or repeatedly implemented where a touchscreen is not the most desirable or ergonomic input solution. A few examples are:
the handset is in
the pocket and the user wants to reject an incoming
call or skip a track without taking the handset out
of the pocket;
the user wants to
take a picture single-handed and the shutter button
is not easily reachable with the thumb;
or the user wants to
browse the pictures single-handed without actually
smearing the touchscreen with the grease from the
thumb.
THE BIG FAT
SOFT-KEY™
InputDynamics'
TouchTap™ software makes smart-phones smarter by adding
a Big Fat Soft-Key™ anywhere on the casework without the
need for new hardware. TouchTap™ utilises
Input-Dynamics' recognition algorithms (patents pending)
and existing hardware to enhance the input capabilities
of the handset.
InputDynamics' software delivers new ways for users to interact with devices that are intuitive and flexible, and frees the designer from the limitations of conventional user Interfaces which are currently confined to keypads, hardware buttons and touchscreens. TouchTap™ can also give touchscreen capability to non-touchscreen handsets using only a software upgrade. |
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Dynamics Ltd. 2012