Comments on: Know Who’s Calling: Tactile Design

By: iPhone rigntone maker review

iPhone rigntone maker review — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 07:59:22 +0000

I learned a lot here.

This is just what I want

By: دردشه صوتيه

دردشه صوتيه — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 13:58:55 +0000

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By: شات

شات — Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:26:46 +0000

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By: r4 ds karte

r4 ds karte — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 10:52:38 +0000

Thanx for the valuable information.Motorola had a concept watch that would marquee the caller information over bluetooth. so vibrating out a caller’s name potentially defeats the privacy idea. keep posting. Will be visiting back soon.

By: Jim Hollan

Jim Hollan — Sun, 05 Jul 2009 02:32:06 +0000

Have a look at Kevin Li’s wok at http://www.kevinli.net/
especially on eyes-free interaction.

Jim

By: Tom

Tom — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 16:22:55 +0000

I had this idea, too, except with ringtones instead of vibrations. And instead of setting custom ringtones, you just create random ones (maybe seeded with the person’s name, so that “John” and “Joan” sound similar?). Eventually you’d learn which ringtone is whose. And if you can’t tell, that’s fine, because you couldn’t tell before when all the ringtones were the same!

The only problem would be that maybe you couldn’t tell if it was your phone or someone else’s phone ringing. All of the tones would have to be of the same style (volume, instrument, musical type, etc.).

By: udayms

udayms — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 06:39:23 +0000

Have you considered the simplest solution of assigning different ringtones to each contact and setting the volume to very very low (or ascending). Many phone’s vibrate to the tune of the ringtone.. :)

So, while we wait for some mobile manufacturer to see the value of this need and implement it, we can probably use this method… :D

By: Dylan Hafertepen

Dylan Hafertepen — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:23:46 +0000

Heads up: if you have phantom vibrate this new method of detecting incoming callers will haunt you.

By: Karl G

Karl G — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:53:33 +0000

@Dylan: Hash the name then map to a set of buzzes. The technique would be similar to how they do the avatars on stack overflow.

I’ve always wanted a (true)colored LED on the top of the phone for this. Stick your hand near your pocket (reflects off the hand) or glace at your purse and get the color. The vibrate (or wrist vibrate mentioned above) is a better solution but I’d had the LED because I couldn’t figure out how to handle purses.

By: parse

parse — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 13:23:30 +0000

Wow. You’ve definitely identified a popular problem.