Speaker: Dr. Micah Yairi is the co-founder and CTO of Tactus Technology, Inc
Title: Adapting Touch Screens to Human Touch
Abstract: Touch screens have been designed to accept data via human touch. Today, the technology exists to turn this relationship around – where touch screens are also used to provide sensory touch information back to the human user. This presentation focuses on (1) the types of sensory input hands and fingers accept, (2) how different technologies use a variety of techniques to provide such sensory input, and (3) how the technologies help create a more complete and fulfilling interaction between a person and a touch screen in both providing and receiving touch input.
Tactus Technology was winner of PC Magazine Technical Excellence Award 2012 and also winner Wired and Engadget Best of CES 2013
Speaker Biography: Dr. Micah Yairi is the co-founder and CTO of Tactus Technology, Inc. Tactus is bringing a new user interface to consumer devices and displays – dynamic touch surfaces that enable buttons to rise up on demand out of the screen. When not needed, the buttons recede back into the screen, invisible, returning the display to its original clear, flat surface. Prior to founding Tactus, Yairi led development efforts for microfluidic transdermal drug delivery systems and advanced optical sensors for Los Gatos Research. Dr. Yairi also founded Fortnight Solutions, a business-to-business “match-making” service that helped engineering companies locate solutions to technical problems.