Building the next-gen human computer interface

MultitouchBuilding the next-gen

human-computer interface

Miguel Antunes / Tiago Serra / Tony Gonçalves

Wednesday, April 1, 2009

1983: Video Place / Video

Desk (Myron Krueger)

1985: Multi-Touch Tablet

(Input Research Group,

University of Toronto)

1982: Flexible Machine Interface

(Nimish Mehta , University of Toronto)

~1998: Fingerworks

(Newark, Delaware)


2006: Synaptics & Pilotfish

(San Jose)

2003: Jazz Mutant

(Bordeaux France)


Jeff Han - NYU - 2006


Microsoft Surface Computing - 2007

Apple iPhone - 2007


SenseBloom - 2008 :)Wednesday, April 1, 2009

TECHNIQUES


Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (FTIR)


Diffused Illumination (DI)


Laser Light Plane (LLP)


Diffused Surface Illumination (DSI)


OpenSource Software

touchlibtbeta

OpenTouchXorg MPXTouchAPIBBTouch

ReacTIVision...


Touchlib


BBTouch


TBeta


ReacTIVision


Design matters

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Touch-tablets vs Touch screens

Discrete vs Continuous

Degrees of Freedom

Size matters

Orientation Matters - Horizontal vs Vertical

There is more to touch-sensing than contact and position

Degree of touch / Pressure sensitivity

Angle of approach

Force vectors

Blob Size matters

Single-finger vs multi-finger

Multi-point vs multi-touch

Multi-hand vs multi-finger

Multi-person vs multi-touch

Points vs Gesture

Stylus and/or finger

Hands and fingers vs Objects

Different vs The Same

Bill Buxton - http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html



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Building the next-gen human computer interface