Multitouch

Multitouch interfaces

• Tap, the Multitouch Table in Room 201

Interface Design

• General Principles of Interaction Design
• Dan Saffer: Tap is the new click Intro lecture on designing for touch screen interfaces.
• History of Multi-touch by Bill Buxton
• Touch Gesture and Marking Kapitel aus "Readings in Human Computer Interaction" (by Buxton)
• Chunking and Phrasing make things easier and more efficient - if you get it right! (by Buxton)
• "a step backward in usability" are todays Touch-Interfaces, as Don Norman says.
• iPad Usability: First Findings From User Testing backs up Normans assumptions.
• User-Defined Gestures for Surface Computing is research on the expectations of users about Touchscreen-Interfaces: physical gestures (like direct manipulation) are used often. Symbolic gestures in contrast are seldom used. In addition users don't care for the number of touching fingers and expect graphical representations of functions. (GUI)
• Asymmetric Division of Labor in Human Skilled Bimanual Action: The Kinematic Chain as a Model Guiards research on how people use both hands together. The non-dominant (usually left) sets the context first, the dominant comes later and does the finer work. Consider positioning a sheet of paper and writing on it.
• Brave NUI World is a book on Design for Touchscreen-Interfaces. It's in our library.

History & Technology Category

• Presentation by Jeff Han(FTIR)
• Surface von Microsoft (Rear-DI)
• laser light plane multitouch table von Alex Popovich (LLP)
• Nima Motamedi- LED-Light Plane (LED-LP)
• Diffused Surface Illumination vom Tim Roth (DSI)
• Reactable, a Multitouch Table using the Reactivision Software
• Annotated Bibliography on touch, pen, OCR and tablet computing
• Kruger's Video Place is from 1988 and shows the use of multitouch gestures - including the zoom gesture

Media-Informatics at the Bauhaus-University

• Distance is Value; Angle is too. Class by Prof. Dr. Bernd Fröhlich, Virtual Reality Systems Group
• The cueTable Cooperative Multi-Touch Interactive Tabletop Paper by Prof. Dr. Tom Gross, Mirko Fetter, Sascha Liebsch; Computer-Supported Cooperative Work Group

Trackers, Framework and Libraries

Name	Programming Language	License	Page
BBTouch	Cocoa(Mac)	GPL license	http://benbritten.com/blog/bbtouch-quick-start/
Bespoke Multi-Touch Framework	C#	BSD License	http://www.bespokesoftware.org/multi-touch/
reacTIVision	C++	GPI license	http://reactivision.sourceforge.net/
Community Core Vision(ccv)	C++	MPL or MIT (not defined)	http://tbeta.nuigroup.com
Touché	Cocoa(Mac)	LGPLv3	http://gkaindl.com/software/touche http://code.google.com/p/touche/
Touchlib	C++	New BSD License	http://nuigroup.com/touchlib/ http://code.google.com/p/touchlib/
FLOSC	Java	MIT	http://code.google.com/p/flosc/
Creative multi-touching	Actionscript 3(Adobe Air)	not specified	http://tv.adobe.com/watch/max-2009-develop/multitouch-demos-in-adobe-air-2-and-flash-player-101/
Grafiti	C#	GNU General Public License(GPL)v3	http://code.google.com/p/grafiti
Multi-Touch Vista	C#	GNU General Public License(GPL)v2	http://www.codeplex.com/multiTouchVista
PyMT	Python	GPL v3	http://pymt.txzone.net/
TouchPy	Python	GPL/Software & Applications 63v	http://touchpy.googlecode.com
2DCur	Python,Lily(Javascript Visual Language on Mozilla Framework)	GPL3	http://2dcur.googlecode.com
SimTouch	Action Script3 (Adobe Air)	MIT License	http://code.google.com/p/simtouch/
ReacTIVIsion	C++	GNU General Public License	http://mtg.upf.es/reactable/?software
QMTSim	C++	GNU General Public	http://code.google.com/p/qmtsim/

Software & The necessary code

Name	Programming Language	Page	Example	Downlaod
Flash CS5	multi-touch api: TouchEvent& TransformGestureEvent	Device Central CS5 - Flash Professional Integration	http://selftitled.ca/	File:Examples-Multitouch Flash CS5.zip/AS3 examples

Fiction

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Non-Fiction

• Wii Technik

1) Tracking fingers with the Wii Remote 2) Low-Cost Multi-touch Whiteboard using the Wiimote
3) Microsoft NEW Technology Microsoft Surface 4) TouchKit Version 2.0 5) Cool Tilty Table Demo 6) Mobile Surface Computer
7) Arduino to Flash range sensor experiment 8) CHI: Multitoe project offers new touch interface 9) MultiTouch.Framework/Iphone & Mac -Develop multi-touch applications for Mac OS X (Part 1)/ Xcode 10) PowerPoint presentation controlled with Kinect

• Build Your Own Multitouch Table With the Cubit - Analyse of „Digitalen Tischs“ Technology
• multi touch software - Ventuz - living in Mission: Impossible
• radar touch
• Light touch

DIY

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• hackaday.com
• LED Touch Sensing
• The €15 Designer Multitouch Pad

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Tracking Motion Detection

• Tracking Motion Detection#Microsoft® Kinect (previously: Project Natal) for the Xbox gaming console
• Markerless Human Motion Capture and Motor Action Recognition

See also

• Instruments