Touch / Gesture Sensitive Headsets
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Staten Island, NY Posted: 2/19/2015 1:00:00 AM
I hate buttons, especially when I can't find them.
I've had a love / hate relationship with headsets over the years. I have a small Bluetooth earbud that has exactly one button. That's it. You can use it to answer the phone, lower or raise the volume and that's about it. Sounds easy? Not really. When you want to adjust the volume, you need to hold it down as it slowly raises, then lowers the volume. If you don't act fast, you have to wait for it to start over again. Don't even think of trying to skip tracks, pause the music or anything else. With just one button, it simply can't do much.
Then there's the opposite problem, I have a full sized headset that has 6 or 7 buttons around the right ear, one for answering the phone, another to pause / play music, two more for volume, and another two for skipping music tracks forward and backward. It took a while, but I eventually managed to get the hang of it, but it wasn't easy. You have to remember you can't see your ears, so you fumble around trying to feel the right button.
The trouble with both is that the smaller headsets don't have room for more than one button, and the larger ones have too many, and you can't find them. The solution to both problems is to have NO BUTTONS... just a touch sensitive surface that lets you use gestures to control it.
Here are some possible gestures for common tasks
1. Tapping it, to answer the phone.
2. Hold your finger in one place or double tap to hang up.
3. Slide your finger slowly from the front to back to raise the volume.
4. Slide your finger slowly from the back to the front to lower the volume.
5. Flick your finger quickly from back to front to skip tracks forward.
6. Flick your finger quickly from front to back to skip tracks backward.
7. Wiggle back and forth to request voice dialing or Siri.
8. Touch it with three fingers to mute / un-mute.
9. Two finger pinch in to temporarily disable touch, so you can adjust the earbud.
10. Twi finger pinch out to turn touch back on.
Joe Crescenzi, Founder
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