About Tactim

Tactim is the worldwide registered trademark of a group of companies who share more than just a vision.

In the words of Cicero: Securitas, quae est animi tanquam tranquillitas.
[Security is likewise peace of mind]

Tactim - meaning "by touch" - was a word used by Latin speakers two thousand years ago in and around Imperial Rome. It is just one of a whole family of words deriving from the same root - tangere: "to touch" - which have survived into present everyday use. Words as varied as: Tango, Tangible, Tact, Tactile and Tactor, or the term used to define "the act of touching; contact": Taction.

We talk of "sight" as one of the five human senses, but the word "vision" implies perfecting what is seen in and around the Self. Taction is "touch in action" and implies perfecting what is felt in and around the Self. Tactim aims to use taction to act on our environment and that means a greater understanding of the human skin.

The Skin - referred to in anatomy as the "derm" - is the largest human bodily organ and is also the membrane containing all the other organs. The body of knowledge concerning the skin is termed DermoScience. In the human embryo, the brain and the skin develop from the same initial ectodermic, or outer skin-layer. The human skin is intensely nerve-rich and yet until now has been mostly under-utilized in its interaction with machines and devices, especially in the domain of feeling and in the domain of effect, that is to say - work.

Taction is a two-way process involving not just "doing", but also "receiving". The human/machine interface industry is very familiar with the complementary aspects of the skin's effectors and sensors. Touch-sensing is performed by several layers of bio-sensors, arranged in a hierarchical fashion from the skin surface down into the underlying hypodermis.

Tactim is currently developing a range of safe, secure, environmentally friendly products and services in the tactile domain. Researchers and designers in contemporary electronic technologies often use the term "haptics" to describe this area - where "tactus" comes from Latin, "haptics" is derived from the ancient Greek equivalent: "hapto", [I touch].

Tactim also licenses its worldwide registered trademark to genuinely safe and secure human/machine interface industries.