Tag Archives: multitouch

The state of touch technologies

The latest of the Economist’s Technology Quarterly has a survey of the history and state of touch technology.
“The double click does not translate terribly well to touch screens, however. This has led some researchers to look for alternatives. In developing his multi-touch screen, Dr Han found that there can be more to touch input than [...]

Nokia patent on gestural UI

“By now, probably everyone who cares, knows that Nokia is working on a next generation, Apple Multi-Touch like user interface – Nokia S60 Touch. But beyond pretty video pictures and generic headings like ” new sensor framework”, “UI accelerator kit”, etc; Nokia is pretty tight lipped about how the new S60 Touch will actually work…I’ve [...]