1980’s
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from :: (Buxton, 2007) http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
- A projection table with the use of optical and acoustic technique to sense both hand and finger on the surface - It also has basic graphical object control like pinching gesture for resizing.
(Pierre Wellner, Rank Xerox EuroPARC, Cambridge)
1991: Digital Desk
A touch tablet with full capable of sensing numbers of touch input and reporting both location and degree of each touch
(Input Research Group, University of Toronto)
1985: Multi-Touch Tablet
A multi-touch CRT screen that has ability to handle with graphical objects with fingers
1984: Multi-Touch Screen (Bell Labs, Murray Hill NJ)
1983: Video Place / Video Desk (Myron Krueger) - A vision based system that enables multiple hands and fingers to interact with rich set of gestures.
- A multi-touch CRT screen that has ability to handle with graphical objects with fingers
1983: Soft Machines (Bell Labs, Murray Hill)
(Nimish Mehta , University of Toronto). - A vision based system that enables multiple hands and fingers to interact with rich set of gestures.
1982: Flexible Machine Interface
1990’s
A bimanual tablet-based system which proves a number of multi-touch concept such as grabbing objects, scaling its size, rotate object with the set of degree of rotation
1997: T3 (Alias|Wavefront, Toronto)
from :: (Buxton, 2007) http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
A research that demonstrate the concept of sensing the identity, location and rotation of physical devices on a digital desk-top display
(Input Research Group, University of Toronto)
1995: Graspable/Tangible Interfaces
A future envision film from SUN Microsystems which includes a number of multi-hand, multi finger interaction
(Bruce Tognazinni , SUN Microsystems)
1992: Starfire
The world’s first smart phone with single-touch functionality
1992: Simon (IBM & Bell South)
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1990’s
http://www.jazzmutant.com/
from :: (Buxton, 2007) http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
- Very first transparent multi-touch machine to be commercialized - Multi-touch was used for controlling music
2003: Jazz Mutant (Bordeaux France)
SmartSkin is an interactive surface that is sensitive to hand and finger gestures. It can sense multiple hand and shapes as well as calculate the distance between hand and surfaces.
2002: Jun Rekimoto Sony Computer Science Laboratories (Tokyo)
The device that proves the concept of touch screen LCD It can sense single touch and basic gesture like flicking right to go to the next page.
(Alias|Wavefront, Toronto On, Canada)
1999: Portfolio Wall
Multi-touch sensor with clay like feature
(Mike Sinclair, Georgia Tech / Microsoft Research)
1997: The Haptic Lens
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from :: (Buxton, 2007) http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
- LCD display with “Finger Shadow Sensing Input� -Seamlessly integration between RGB pixel on LCD screen with shadow detection on the pixel enables multi-touch functionality in high performance
2005: Toshiba Matsusita Display Technology (Tokyo)
Elegant implementation of gesture and multi-touch Technique on rear project surface
http://www.cs.nyu.edu/~jhan/
2005: Jeff Han (NYU):
- A front projected computer vision-based interactive table system - Using shadow-based touch detection to sense the fingers, hands and objects - It can identify particular object such as mobile phone, paper, etc.
(Andy Wilson, Microsoft Research): http://research.microsoft.com/~awilson/
2005: PlayAnywhere
A touch screen system that consists of rear projection display and image processing which can transform normal sheet of acrylic plastic into input/output surface for gesture and touch interaction
(Andy Wilson, Microsoft Research): http://research.microsoft.com/~awilson/
2004: TouchLight
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from :: (Buxton, 2007) http://www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html
What’s next ?
- Integrated multi touch mouse pad to support gesturing and other multi touch functionalities
http://www.apple.com/macbookair/
2008: Macbook Air
- Interactive multi-touch surface with object identification capability -It is a result from Andy Wilson and Steve Bathiche Research from internal Microsoft research
http://www.surface.com
2007: Microsoft Surface Computing
Innovative mobile phone with multi-touch and gesture functionality from Apple
http://www.apple.com/iphone/technology/
2007: Apple iPhone
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