Effect of haptics on the Quality of Experience

Haptic interfaces add excitement and enjoyment to an application. Since haptics is not yet a mainstream medium, the improvement of an application´s Quality of Experience (QoE) by the addition of haptic feedback is still not completely understood. This paper focuses on the effect of force feedback and what it adds to the experience of the user compared to visual and auditory feedback. In essence, it deals with certain issues regarding haptic-based applications compared to the traditional mouse and keyboard applications. These issues center on the QoE of applications that can utilize either haptics or traditional user interfaces. Our analysis shows that the addition of haptics will increase the QoE in the absence of fatigue.