Various embodiments provide keyboards that utilize electrically-deformable
material as an actuating mechanism to provide haptic feedback to a user
of the keyboard. In at least some embodiments, the
electrically-deformable material is utilized to impart, to a depressed
key or keyboard element, a multi-vectored movement that produces a
perceived acceleration of the key or keyboard element thus providing a
user with haptic feedback which simulates a snapover movement.