Multi-touch screen interfaces

 – posted August 21st, 2006 by Colm McBarron     Comments (2)

Standard touch screen’s only allow someone to have a single point of contact with the screen and so only allows one ‘click’ or action at a time, similar to the mouse having a single pointer.

Multi-touch screen in action

However, this piece of hardware and software allows people to directly manipulate what’s on the screen infront of them, no mouse or keyboard in sight.

Simply using fingers and hand gestures, a user is able to move, stretch, pan, zoom, rotate and even move within a 3D environment.

And for the traditionalist amongst us there’s even a keyboard that can be brought onscreen, which you can also move, stretch, pan and zoom like everything else on screen.

Multi-touch screen with keyboard

This is one the most impressive working concepts by far that I’ve seen for human computer interaction (HCI).

It has huge potential as the successor to the traditional mouse and keyboard that we’re all so use to.

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