A rudimentary touch input device for visual displays

Multi-touch Table as Conventional Input Device

In order to improve the functionality of multi-touch devices, the possibility of using them as input devices for other computers needs to be reviewed. The idea is, to get rid of many different peripherals (e.g. keyboard, mouse, multi-touch pad) by using a single multi-touch display. Furthermore the display can be used as an additional monitor to show for example toolbars, which can be directly ...

Haptic Overlay Device for Flat Panel Touch Displays

In an effort to present users with an increasing amount of information, many industries including automotive and aerospace are adopting flat panel touch displays as a user interface. These interfaces are becoming popular due to their reconfigurability so that control and display functions can be embedded in multiple layers or menus. However, one of the disadvantages of this approach is the need...

Redesigning Input Controls of a Touch-Sensitive Pin-Matrix Device

To support blind people in dealing with graphical user interfaces some two-dimensional Braille devices were developed. In order to ensure an efficient workflow not only the preparation of content, but also the handling of the device has to be well usable. In this paper, the redesign of a touch-sensitive pin-matrix device is discussed. At first, some mock-ups of additional input controls were de...

Touch Screen Computer Displays

A gestural interaction design model for multi-touch displays

Media platforms and devices that allow an input from a user’s finger/hand touch are becoming more ubiquitous, such as Microsoft Surface and DiamondTouch, as well as numerous experimental systems in research labs. Currently the definition of touch styles is application-specific and each device/application has its own set of available touch types to be recognized as input. In this paper we attemp...