Last week / in my last post we saw how the brain is able to control a means of transportation. But how to know where to drive? Beside the speech output option of GPS one has to verify the way by looking at the GPS. But with the tactile feedback called “Shear Feedback” by researches of University of Utah the driver can have his look on the road.
This option is really nice because it allows many use cases (bike riding directions, direct blind people, …) and is private (no one else realizes the informations (security reason) respectively get’s distracted by the cues (privacy reason)).
But I’m asking myself if this is really applicable for bike riding when there are vibrations through rough underground?! Under these circumstances you can’t hold your fingers at one point and the vibrations maybe interfere with tactile cueing. Interesting work has to be done…
[heml.eng.utah.edu: Shear Feedback]