Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In psychology and physiology, the science of touch: as optics is the science of sight and acoustics the science of hearing. As generally used, the term includes the physiology and psychology not only of the skin and the adjoining mucous membrane, but also of the kinesthetic organs (muscles, tendons. joints).
Wiktionary
- n. medicine The study of the sense of touch.
- n. computing The study of user interfaces that use the sense of touch.
Etymologies
- From haptic (Wiktionary)
Examples
“There are two aspects of writing; one is the visual aspect and the other is the perception and motor aspect, otherwise known as "haptics.”
“Samsung Instinct, exclusively available from Sprint, has a high-tech look with a large, vibrant touch screen featuring localized tactile feedback, called haptics, which allow the virtual QWERTY keypad and other operations to become a sensory experience.”
“Large, advanced, touch sensitive 3-inch LCD display (240 x 400 Pixels, 262K color) offering responsive feedback called haptics”
“Touch-enabled devices will also make increasing use of techniques such as haptics to enhance user experience.”
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“Meanwhile, the Web is ablaze with reports that Apple is licensing "haptics" technology from Immersion to add the kind of tactile feedback found on some touch-displays to the iPhone.”
“Touch-enabled devices will also make increasing use of techniques such as haptics to enhance user experience," Gartner says.”
“Other companies (notably Motorola) do this using a technology called "haptics", exactly how the 9500 improves on this is not clear.”
“Pretty soon the main obstacle to truly immersive VR will not be the visuals but the haptics — our sense of touch.”
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“| New 3Dcamp talks: IBM, interactive art, DIY multi-touch haptics, teaching with Lego robotics »”
“New 3Dcamp talks: IBM, interactive art, DIY multi-touch haptics, teaching with Lego robotics”
New 3Dcamp talks: IBM, interactive art, DIY multi-touch haptics, teaching with Lego robotics
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘haptics’.
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SCIE - Be the first...
... to use these words in spoken English and reap esteem. In the SPOKEN corpus of the COCA (full corpus: 450 million words) none of these occur.
stochastic, disputant, state-led, almshouse, exceptionality, bibliographical, t-test, z-score, personal/social, neoplastic, stroma, ludic and 288 more...
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Touchy
Touch-sense metaphors, words and terms.
Includes general touch-oriented metaphors; words that seem like puns but reference the sense of touch, like: grasp (to grasp a concept), feeli...kinaesthesia, somatosensory, grasp, feelings, touchy, rubs, poke, kinesthetic, feels, hold, hands-on, moving and 14 more...
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Wicked Cool Words
These words have been posted on my vocabulary tumblr, wickedcoolwords.tumblr.com!
miasma, libation, laconic, denigrating, deontic, accinge, liquescent, quagmire, exiguous, dirigible, lambasted, lambaste and 89 more...
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Pluralia Tantum
Nouns that are common in plural form but are non-existent or rarely used in singular form.
scissors, thanks, clothes, remains, tights, trousers, pants, news, billiards, means, mathematics, physics and 221 more...
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mager's Words
enigmatic, pragmatic, pulchritudinous, nincompoop, annihilation, sociality, entailment, acrosome, egalitarian, culture, technocracy, shenanigan and 541 more...
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Digital Terms
Words come and go, perhaps nowhere faster than online. Some industry terms to stay current -- or to remember as they rest in peace.
tweet, cpm, crackberry, nofollow, brick-and-mortar, page view, double opt-in, opt-in, opt-out, mash-up, word of mouth, ctr and 200 more...
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bioinformatics and bioengineering words
What happens when you put a (former) English major at a bioinformatics and bioengineering summer institute? A list of wacky bio-words, of course!
proteomics, genomics, contig, dinucleotide, spectrometry, fovea, metagenomics, peptide, phylogenetics, protozoan, heterocyst, intracellular and 73 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for haptics.
ecbrenner "Haptic technology is basically the application of force feedback to create a sense of touch with digital experiences. Touchscreen phones that click when pressing keys or buttons are introducing this technology to the mainstream." --Eric Picard, ClickZ Jan 22, 2009
reesetee A science concerned with the sense of touch.
In ophthalmology, "haptics" refer to the two supporting springs that hold an artificial lens within the lens capsule (after surgical removal of cataracts). The word also refers to technology that "interfaces" with a user via the sense of touch by applying forces, vibrations and/or motions to the user to create virtual objects. Jun 7, 2007