Touchprovide
Touchprovide is a concept in touch-based user interfaces describing a strategy where the act of touching is used not only to input but to convey additional information, options, or assistance directly at the point of contact. It integrates contextual provisioning into the interaction, aiming to reduce navigation steps and cognitive load by making resources immediately available where users interact.
In practice, touchprovide combines modalities such as haptic feedback, visual overlays, and lightweight audio cues, together
Design considerations include minimizing latency, avoiding feedback overload, and ensuring accessibility for users with disabilities. Developers
Touchprovide has appeared in human-computer interaction literature as a way to enhance direct manipulation by turning
See also: haptic feedback, direct manipulation, gesture-based interfaces, contextual interfaces.