Interactive touch screens
Hat tip to Tom for dropping the following link. Interactive touch screens will be the future of all our technology needs. Whenever I think of touch screens I picture the movie Minority Report with that slick multi-panel glass touch screen.
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.
Multi-Touch Interaction Research is taking the technology one step further by implementing the creating interactive surfaces on for tables and walls.
