Multitouch Integration Transforms The Digital World

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Although the idea of manipulating content on a digital screen with touch has become widespread, we’ve only scratched the surface of what can be accomplished.

Although the idea of manipulating content on a digital screen with touch has become widespread, we’ve only scratched the surface of what can be accomplished.

Visit anyplace where large groups gather and you’re bound to see it: people with smartphones in hand; sliding, pinching and otherwise interacting with the content on their phone screens via a variety of finger motions. Although at first glance there is little precedent for the concept of changing images by pinching fingers together or spreading them apart, the idea of doing so has become such a part of our lives it’s hard to remember a time when we didn’t do so.“Multi-touch assimilation into our daily lives has revolutionized the way we interpret the digital world,” said Stephen Gladden, marketing manager with Lake Forest, Calif.-based Horizon Display. “Man and machine truly have a human interface.” It’s also set the stage for the direction digital signage ...
... is likely to take in the next few years. “All this talk has mitigated the power of true multitouch because in the commercial market,” Gladden said. “Multi doesn’t mean more than one, it means more than two. So those awesome two-finger gestures we’ve all become accustomed to have become old and boring to us technologists. I’m not sure when the last time was I used two fingers to move anything.” Today, multitouch means getting rid of those gestures that don’t apply to any object in the natural world and replacing them with natural gestures. “Using your whole hand and all fingers to interact with an object shortens the learning curve and broadens the audience,”Gladden said. “True multitouch also lends itself well to collaborative environments where two or more users are expected to use the screen for presenting or sharing.”
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