Embodied contact · sensorimotor feedback
Affect it first.
You do not read the interface first. You affect it. Tactosema studies what changes when approach becomes contact, contact receives a response, and response enters a feedback loop.
Approach becomes contact. Contact becomes a feedback-bearing relation.
TMove through the field.
Pointer, touch, proximity, duration, and response timing all change the event. Motion here is not decoration: it reports your contact history.
The Tactosema Loop
Each stage changes what the next stage can become. Select a step to expose its operational question.
What entered range — and through which sensory channel?
Do not name the whole system. Name the variable that changed.
Tactosema Lab
Set the contact variables. The readout remains conceptual until connected to a measured sensor or experiment.
Body–Signal Loop
Conceptual variable mapRelation becomes event
The canonical Tactosema center is temporal and relational: phase, coupling, response windows, and latency determine when a relation can become an effective event. Embodied contact is the application layer shown here.
Feedback latency
Timing changes the interaction. The useful question is specific: which delay, in which task, alters coordination or interpretation?
Contact changes what follows.
Tactosema is useful whenever touch, haptic feedback, timing or sensorimotor coordination changes the next response.