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Amazing video of a touch screen interface – “While touch sensing is commonplace for single points of contact, multi-touch sensing enables a user to interact with a system with more than one finger at a time, as in chording and bi-manual operations. Such sensing devices are inherently also able to accommodate multiple users simultaneously, which is especially useful for larger interaction scenarios such as interactive walls and tabletops.” [via] Link.
Multi-Touch Interaction Research (video)
Posted by Phillip Torrone | Wednesday February 8th, 2006 6:00 PM
Categories: Art, News from the Future | 4 Comments
Probably the coolest thing I’ve seen in a LONG time. Where can I buy one?
A better question would be how do I make one. Cause I want to know.
Interesting… Apple recently filed for a patent for the same feature.
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/02/04/apple_touchscreen_patent/
The ACM paper written by these guys is available.
http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1095054
Unfortunately you either need the appropriate subscriptions or to pony up $10 to buy it.
So I’m $10 poorer.
It’s only four pages (the construction is surprisingly simple), but whilst I was able to figure out some of the techniques required before reading it, there’s a few other issues and improvements I probably wouldn’t have discovered easily.
I may not be able to distribute the paper, but I’ll have a construction log and software available once I’m done building and coding
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