An Electronic Voting System for Haptic Touchscreen Interface

Abstract

Various haptic displays are becoming available for implementing a new kind of human computer interaction (HCI) method. Among many types and models, touch panel displays have been used in wide variety of applications and are proven to be a useful interface infrastructure. In spite of their popularity, there are some weak points. The most serious drawback is their hardness to operate especially for the weak users in information technology such as the elderly and blind users. The tactile feedback function has a potential ability for enabling the weak to make full use of the devices. We propose an approach for effectively designing user-friendly haptic applications especially targeted at supporting the weak users. We exemplify our approach through the design and development of an electronic voting system. The system uses a touch panel haptic display for helping the weak to operate with straightforward touch sensations. It allows them to easily confirm, select, and vote their supporting candidate without any assisters. We also conducted a preliminary evaluation to verify the effectiveness of the system.

Haptic feedback using an all-organic electroactive polymer composite

“…The handling of these devices is very intuitive as they can be operated directly with one or several fingers. But they all have one big deficiency: no matter what interface element the user touches, the touch is the same and corresponds to unresponsive glass [3][4][5].…”

Comparative study of electronic voting models and a proposed security framework for the implementation in Mauritius

“…The authors apply the standard cut-of-the-choose technique to avoid the computational zero-knowledge proofs and show that the proposed scheme is efficient yet somewhat provably secure in the simulation-based paradigm [3]. Nishino et al have used a touch panel haptic display in the design and development of an electronic voting system to operate with straightforward touch sensations [4]. This model easily confirms, selects, and votes the supporting candidate without any assistance.…”

Age and Gestural Differences in the Ease of Rotating a Virtual 3D Image on a Large, Multi-Touch Screen

“…It can be installed easily in the surfaces of products and used intuitively. The literature describes many successful applications, such as a health information systems (Holzinger, 2003;Jackson & Peters, 2003), vehicle navigation systems (Chiang, Brooks, & Weir, 2004), interfaces used in equipment control (Rogers, O'Brien, & McLaughlin, 2006;Suter, Dooroo, Singhose, Sorensen, & Glauser, 2007;Mainardi, 2008), and an electronic voting system (Nishino, Goto, Kagawa, Utsumiya, Hirooka, Osada, et al, 2010). In recent years, touchscreens have been applied in a wide range of situations, from improving communication between nursing staff and patients with Alzheimer's disease (Astell, Ellis, Bernardi, Alm, Dye, Gowans, et al, 2010) to facilitating interactions between human operators and 3D visualizations of multimedia digital content (Yu & Isenberg, 2009).…”