Touchscreens Are Out, and Tactile Controls Are Back

• “Tactile controls are back in vogue.” ⤴️
• “Plotnick, an associate professor of cinema and media studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, is the leading expert on buttons and how people interact with them. She studies the relationship between technology and society with a focus on everyday or overlooked technologies” ⤴️
• “this idea that an entire interface could die” ⤴️
• “how we came to be a society that pushed buttons everywhere we went.” ⤴️
• “pervasiveness of the button as a technology pitted against this idea of buttons disappearing seemed like such an interesting dichotomy” ⤴️
• “persistent anxieties over time about control and who gets to push the button” ⤴️
• “pleasures around button pushing” ⤴️
• “pendulum swing between fantasy and fear, pleasure and panic” ⤴️
• “connections between the past and the present.” ⤴️
• “That’s not to say touchscreens aren’t a really useful interface” ⤴️
• “you can feel your way around for them when you don’t want to directly pay attention to them” ⤴️
• “richness of the tactile experience that’s afforded by pushing buttons.” ⤴️
• “a way to almost de-technologize our everyday existence, to a certain extent.” ⤴️
• “That’s not to say buttons don’t work with screens very nicely—they’re often partners.” ⤴️
• “taking away the priority of vision as a sense” ⤴️
• “a screen isn’t always the best way to interact with something.” ⤴️
• “It’s always been funny to me that we call them touchscreens. We think about them as a touch modality, but a touchscreen prioritizes the visual.” ⤴️
• “paradigm shifts over time with technologies, but for the most part, we often recycle old ideas.” ⤴️
• “about medical devices like CT machines and X-ray machines, trying to imagine the easiest way to push a button in that situation” ⤴️
• “if you see someone going into cardiac arrest in a mall or out on the street, a lot of people are terrified to actually push the button” ⤴️
• “Often with new technologies, we think we’re completely reinventing the wheel. But maybe these concepts existed a long time ago, and we haven’t paid attention to that.” ⤴️
• “Tactile controls are back in vogue.” ⤴️
• “Plotnick, an associate professor of cinema and media studies at Indiana University in Bloomington, is the leading expert on buttons and how people interact with them. She studies the relationship between technology and society with a focus on everyday or overlooked technologies” ⤴️
• “this idea that an entire interface could die” ⤴️
• “how we came to be a society that pushed buttons everywhere we went.” ⤴️
• “pervasiveness of the button as a technology pitted against this idea of buttons disappearing seemed like such an interesting dichotomy” ⤴️
• “persistent anxieties over time about control and who gets to push the button” ⤴️
• “pleasures around button pushing” ⤴️
• “pendulum swing between fantasy and fear, pleasure and panic” ⤴️
• “connections between the past and the present.” ⤴️
• “That’s not to say touchscreens aren’t a really useful interface” ⤴️
• “you can feel your way around for them when you don’t want to directly pay attention to them” ⤴️
• “richness of the tactile experience that’s afforded by pushing buttons.” ⤴️
• “a way to almost de-technologize our everyday existence, to a certain extent.” ⤴️
• “That’s not to say buttons don’t work with screens very nicely—they’re often partners.” ⤴️
• “taking away the priority of vision as a sense” ⤴️
• “a screen isn’t always the best way to interact with something.” ⤴️
• “It’s always been funny to me that we call them touchscreens. We think about them as a touch modality, but a touchscreen prioritizes the visual.” ⤴️
• “paradigm shifts over time with technologies, but for the most part, we often recycle old ideas.” ⤴️
• “about medical devices like CT machines and X-ray machines, trying to imagine the easiest way to push a button in that situation” ⤴️
• “if you see someone going into cardiac arrest in a mall or out on the street, a lot of people are terrified to actually push the button” ⤴️
• “Often with new technologies, we think we’re completely reinventing the wheel. But maybe these concepts existed a long time ago, and we haven’t paid attention to that.” ⤴️