hapticity

First thing’s first: This blog is a personal project and the opinions here are strictly my own.

My name is David M. Birnbaum and I’m an inventor and human factors expert with a background in interactive systems, embodied communication, gesture, and music. My career goal is to unlock the human value of technology through emotional design.

For the past several years I’ve been working to transform mobile user experience with haptics (touch feedback). Is it possible to touch your friends through your phone? How can we effectively transmit emotion through digital networks? What does it really mean for an interface to feel “real”? The experiences I design try to answer these kinds of questions.

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