Custom Vibration Patterns for Mobile Device Notifications
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current mobile devices lack the ability to provide customizable and recognizable vibration patterns for notification events, limiting user differentiation and feedback in response to various alerts and communications.
Innovation Solution
A method and system that allows users to create and assign custom vibration patterns by receiving tactile input on a touch-sensitive surface, providing visual and haptic feedback during recording and replay, and associating these patterns with specific notification events, enabling unique vibration feedback for alerts and contacts.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If users are allowed to create custom vibration patterns through tactile input, then user customization capability is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system allows users to create their own vibration patterns by tapping the touchscreen, eliminating the need for pre-configured patterns or complex setup procedures. The user's natural tapping actions directly define the vibration pattern parameters, making the system self-configuring and reducing overall complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
Visual feedback is provided on the touchscreen to confirm each tap and show the developing vibration pattern in real-time. This feedback mechanism helps users understand how their inputs are being interpreted and allows for intuitive adjustments, simplifying the customization process despite the increased functionality.
2Ease of operation
If visual and haptic feedback are provided during pattern creation, then user interaction quality is improved, but energy consumption increases
Solution Approach 1:
Visual feedback elements such as animations and color changes are activated only during tap events and brief intervals afterward, rather than continuously. This periodic activation provides necessary interaction feedback while minimizing energy consumption during pattern creation and playback.
3Loss of information
If multiple notification events are assigned unique vibration patterns, then notification distinguishability is improved, but information management complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system divides notification management into individual, independently configurable vibration patterns for each notification type. Each notification event can be assigned its own unique pattern without affecting others, allowing users to manage and modify patterns on a per-notification basis, reducing overall management complexity.
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AI summary
The present disclosure describes technology, which can be implemented as a method, apparatus, and/or computer software embodied in a computer-readable medium, and which, among other things, be used to create custom feedback patterns in response to user input, for example, in response to the user inputting a desired pattern of tactile events detected on a mobile device. For example, one or more aspects of the subject matter described in this disclosure can be embodied in one or more methods that include receiving tactile input from a user of an electronic device specifying a custom feedback pattern, in concert with receiving tactile input, providing feedback to the user corresponding to the received tactile input, and storing the specified custom feedback pattern for use by the electronic device to actuate feedback signaling a predetermined notification event.