Systems And Methods For Pre-Touch And True Touch

A method for generating a haptic effect comprising:

• receiving a first interface signal from a touch-sensitive interface configured to detect a user interaction and transmit an interface signal based at least in part on the user interaction;
• determining a haptic effect based at least in part on the first interface signal;
• preloading a haptic signal associated with the haptic effect to a cache configured to store the haptic signal for a period of time;
• and
• transmitting the haptic signal to a haptic effect generator configured to output the haptic effect.

A computer readable medium encoded with processor executable program code, the computer readable medium comprising:

• program code to receive an interface signal from a touch-sensitive interface configured to detect a user interaction, the touch-sensitive interface further configured to transmit an interface signal based at least in part on the user interaction;
• program code to determine a haptic effect based at least in part on the interface signal;
• program code to preload a haptic signal associated with the haptic effect to a cache configured to store the haptic signal for a time period;
• and
• program code to transmit the stored haptic signal to a haptic effect generator configured to output the haptic effect.