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danimal4326 · **haptic clock -** 06-12-2007, 06:21 PM

Anyone try this?

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MrKyoo · 06:54 PM

Info.

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The Haptic Clock is a small clock program for Java powered mobile phones. The clock conveys time through a sequence of vibrations so you never have to pull the phone out of your pocket to tell time.
Long vibrations are the number of hours of the current time on a 12 hour clock, so 6pm and 6am are both 6 vibrations. The shorter vibrations are the number of minutes divided by 5. So 4 vibrations is 20 minutes and 7 vibrations is 35 minutes. Example: (3) long vibrations and (6) short vibrations means it’s 3:30. Just in case you do want to see the time, the screen displays the time with tick marks for hours, minutes and seconds.

Instructions: Press ‘5′ to vibrate the current time. Press ‘0′ to exit program. UP and DOWN to control the speed of vibrations. Time alerts (vibrations) will occur automatically every 15 minutes on the hour.

obijohn · 06-13-2007, 11:13 AM

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Originally Posted by MrKyoo

The Haptic Clock is a small clock program for Java powered mobile phones. The clock conveys time through a sequence of vibrations so you never have to pull the phone out of your pocket to tell time.
Long vibrations are the number of hours of the current time on a 12 hour clock, so 6pm and 6am are both 6 vibrations. The shorter vibrations are the number of minutes divided by 5. So 4 vibrations is 20 minutes and 7 vibrations is 35 minutes. Example: (3) long vibrations and (6) short vibrations means it’s 3:30. Just in case you do want to see the time, the screen displays the time with tick marks for hours, minutes and seconds.

Instructions: Press ‘5′ to vibrate the current time. Press ‘0′ to exit program. UP and DOWN to control the speed of vibrations. Time alerts (vibrations) will occur automatically every 15 minutes on the hour.

So, let me get this straight. Hours are single long vibrations, minutes are short vibrations representing a multiple of the actual minutes (total minutes in an hour divided by 5), seconds are shorter burst vibrations representing a multiple of the seconds (total seconds in a minute divided by 4). So 6 long vibrations, followed by 10 short vibrations, followed by 14 short burst vibrations = 6:50:56?

Ok, just kidding about the seconds part. Still seems pretty confusing to me.

MrKyoo · 06-13-2007, 11:31 AM

That’s what I thought but I’m sure over time you would get accustomed to the different vibrations.

Have you tried it yet?

birddog · 11:55 AM

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Originally Posted by MrKyoo

That’s what I thought but I’m sure over time you would get accustomed to the different vibrations.

Have you tried it yet?

Seems like it would take forever to tell you that it was 11:55. It would probably take 20 seconds and be totally disruptive. People would get used to me "zoning" while I count the vibrations. This is a bad interface

For this to be useful, the interface would have to be much quicker. Forget the hours, If I'm reminded of the time every 10 minutes, I can keep track of the hours. And forget the five minute increment -- that is too much.

Limit it to 10 minute intervals.

Then do something clever to make it quicker (like roman numerals)
Use one long vibration to indicate the hour (any hour). Then if short vibrations preceed the one long "hour" vibration, it means "of the hour", if the shorts come after the long, it would mean "after"

So, using - and . for long and short:
11:50 would be: . -
and 11:10 would be: - .
11:20: - . .

This would work much better.

MrKyoo · 06-13-2007, 12:46 PM

Well there you go, sounds like you have an application to start developing.