Method for adjusting the user interface of a device

Abstract

A method adjusting a user interface experience for a device that includes providing a user interface to retrieve a user input, providing a tactile interface layer that defines a surface and includes a volume of fluid and a displacement device 10 that manipulates the volume of fluid to deform a particular region of the surface into a tactilely distinguishable formation retrieving a user preference between a first type, location, and/or timing and a second embodiment, location, and/or timing through the user interface, and manipulating the volume of fluid to deform a particular region of the surface into a tactilely distinguishable formation of one of the first and second type, location, and/or timing is disclosed.

We claim: 
     
         1 . A method, for adjusting a user interface of a device, comprising:
 on a computing device, receiving a parameter level selection from a range of parameter levels between a minimum parameter level and a maximum parameter level;   storing the parameter level selection as a user preference;   displaying an input graphic on a display of the computing device;   displacing a volume of fluid into a cavity arranged over the input graphic on the display to expand a deformable region corresponding to the input graphic from a retracted setting into an expanded setting, the deformable region flush with an adjacent peripheral region in the retracted setting and offset above the peripheral region in the expanded setting, the volume of fluid corresponding to the user preference; and   sensing an input on the deformable region.