Potential In A Wrist Worn Vibro-Tactile, Gesture-Based Band

Tactual displays are effective in conveying information in an intuitive and attention-grabbing way. For example, a little tap on the shoulder is much more effective in ca[ling the user's attention than a text string of 'so-and-so is standing right behind you.' - Tan, H. Z., & Pentland, A. (1997).

Because I believe we can massively increase the speed and richness of how human-machine communication, by making smart use of currently available technology. Methods involving AR/VR, BCI or Voice Input are either very far into the future or will always be impractical

Augumented Reality is too impractical and will always be (because you need two different modalities for IO (sight and gestures), besides vision as our primary senses should never be occluded under any circumstance (think intrusive ads from minority report)

Reasons why VR isn’t the future

• It occludes vision making every other task suffer
• Mapping digital tasks directly to 3d elements is inefficient. Why should i have to direct my vision and move my hand towards a virtual switch in 3d space over just sliding my fingers on a <8” screen? We should be embracing abstractions over embodiment
• Headsets are currently socially unacceptable and might always be into the far future.

Reasons why voice input isn’t the future

Can you use any voice assistant in a pool or while sky diving or even just while driving with your windows down ? NO

speech recognition can only cover common words with common accents

voice input isn’t very interruptible; you typically have to wait to check if the assistant has gotten it right before correcting it;

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