A tactile language for the moments your eyes, ears, and hands are busy.
Felt on your watch, phone, or wearable.
Your phone buzzes. You look.
Namimoji makes that unnecessary.
It turns vibration into a language your skin can read — structured messages carrying who and what.
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Event app · sensor · timer |
Encoder rhythm · concept · custom |
Skin watch · phone · wearable |
Send gesture · reply |
📩 Message · "Anna says hi" — two segments, joined by a divider
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WHO identification — who it's from Triple Flutter recognized like a ringtone |
divider an invariant marker between segments |
WHAT content — what it says Knock-Knock a hello you feel |
🌧️ Concept · "a rain warning" — one signal: when, how long, how hard
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ONSET when it starts — a short tap for each five-minute mark ●one tap → five minutes |
DURATION how long it lasts — long beats and short taps count the time ●─── ●long + short → thirty-five minutes |
INTENSITY how hard it falls — density reads as strength ●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●●dense run → heavy rain |
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Semantic channel, not an alert channel. |
Choose from rhythm, concept, custom. |
Feel. Gesture. Reply. No screen. |
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Apps, sensors, timers, concepts. |
Conscious by default. Unconscious at best. |
CC BY 4.0 by default. |
In practice, one implementation might ship a vocabulary of named patterns — namimojis — that play instead of being spelled out:
| ❤️ | Triple Flutter | a heart picking up its pace |
| ✓ | Drumroll + Bell | a rising roll into a bright ring |
| 👋 | Knock-Knock | someone at the door, twice |
| 🚨 | BRUTAL | eight unbroken seconds of pure intensity — emergencies only |
| 🚴 | 🎧 | 🩺 | 🦯 | 👶 | 🛠️ |
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| Cyclist | Commuter | Surgeon | Deafblind | Parent | Crew |
| eyes on traffic | in a meeting | mid-operation | no sight, no sound | household in motion | hands on tools |
Visual and auditory interfaces fail at those moments. Tactile ones don't have to.
Namimoji is an open standard for tactile communication, like Unicode for text.
A message encoded on one device can be felt on another. Built for smartwatches, phones, wearables, accessibility tools, and hobby hardware.
One standard. Many implementations.
Editor's Draft
This README is the conceptual overview. The normative specification — including the wire format, encoder registry, reference encoders, conformance criteria, and test vectors — is in active development and will be published here and at namimoji.com as it matures.
📳 Namimoji · namimoji.com · Editorial Home · Draft · Patent pending · NL 4001519 · Julian Zienert
Licensing: CC BY 4.0 by default — other files or directories may carry their own license · Patent intent: PATENT_POLICY.md
Contact: editor@namimoji.com · Legal: namimoji.com/legal
Namimoji is an independent open specification for structured tactile communication. The haptic concept builds on the academic term "tacton" — a tactile icon (Brewster & Brown, 2004), used here descriptively.