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Hi all!
It's looking like user:Alexanderaelberts trys to promote links of his own webside (www.multitouch-software.com) with section Omnitapps... . I am new on Wiki and don't know how I can deleted this changes from user:Alexanderaelberts.
Thanks (YahooBot (talk) 13:10, 9 June 2011 (UTC)).[reply]
I've been editing the page the past few days, and while I'm interested in the many multitouch interfaces out there, it seems all the products and examples should be in their own list, similar to the List of Multi-Touch Computers and Monitors, with mentions of seminal technologies like the iPhone in the history and overview sections of the article. I have a template here, but could use help filling it out or starting the actual page. Also, I've been slowly but surely trying to fill out the history of multitouch section too if anyone wants to tackle that with me.
Thanks! Rosieate (talk) 17:42, 13 January 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Someone please add this when you have a chance: http://www.wacom.com/bamboo/bamboo_touch.php —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.183.36.58 (talk) 05:00, 23 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Interactive Whiteboard and classroom technology company Promethean has been previewing its multitouch interface - I added an overview and some links - Uses EM pen based technology so you can trace and lean on surface... so is another development direction in the space - and hopefully one that will be in the hands of several million kids in a few months. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.69.85.39 (talk) 20:07, 25 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The "Multi-Touch" in Minority Report has *nothing* to do with Hans FTIR-Multitouch. As you can plainly see, the user has to wear a tracking device on its hands (with some visible-light LEDs) and doesn't even touch the screen but gestures around a lot (like pointing to a snippet in the far side of the screen and moving the index finger to the center in order to make it move there).
And gesture tracking is nothing new, the movie represented just the technical reality -- at the time of its making! todays trackers for example work without the special device and recognize plain hands.
apart from this, multi-touch is not hans invention (though multi-touch with FTIR is. and of course those nice apps), microsoft research for example has built "touch light" 1-2y earlier and invented the scaling technique Han uses for moving/scaling/rotating images with one motion (but it's very easy to make up by yourself as soon as you know what you want). and there are some non-transparent approaches, also (plus apps, but not as cool).
So maybe the article should lay off its "fanboyish" attitude to multitouch and list up the facts. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 80.129.243.120 (talk) 20:15, 17 January 2007
____ I agree. I removed the ref to Minority Report once, and pop, it is back again. I have no interest in bouncing it back off and on. But there is simply no reason for it here. If you want a real Minority Report type interface, then go back to 1983 and references to Myron Krueger and Videoplace. Minority report was not even the first movie to demonstrate that kind of gestural interaction. But that's not the point. It is a trivial reference, contributes nothing, and adding material about the 25 year history of multi-touch would be a far more useful way to spend time. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Wasbuxton (talk • contribs)
At present, part of the article looks like this: "FingerWorks has since been purchased by Apple, who has incorporated the technology into its iPhone. The firm Tactex Controls is one supplier of multi-touch pads."
I fixed this once, and someone (perhaps the over-sensitive original author of the article) has changed it: for anyone vaguely interested, look at the history:
Apple, who have incorporated the technology into their iPhone...
Anyway. I suggest that the latter is better. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 81.152.82.198 (talk) 16:00, 4 May 2007 (UTC).[reply]
FingerWorks produced a line of keyboards that incorporated multi-touch gestures.
I suggest replacement of most of the links, to meet with the Wikipedia policies, by this page:
An overview with demo videoclips related to touchscreens. A page about Jeff Han, TED conference, Microsoft Surface and lots of other touchscreen related stuff. -- KumpelBert 13:40, 2 June 2007 (UTC)[reply]
This article does not mention the two major patents purchased by Apple, originally filed by Fingerworks, as part of the Fingerworks buyout, which give Apple major amounts of control over how typing can occur on a touch screen, notably their exclusive rights to chording: [1] [2]. While the Wikipedia article governing touchscreens describes the touchscreen market as nearly patent free, these two patents create an IP minefield for those attempting to compete with Apple. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.106.6.197 (talk) 02:37, 21 November 2008 (UTC)[reply]
This article seems to not enough information about Apple's implementation of multi-touch with the iPhone and iPod Touch. It mainly describes the history of multi-touch. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Destin (talk • contribs) 13:24, 14 September 2007 (UTC)[reply]
How about the german company Balda who is making the multituch to Apple —Preceding unsigned comment added by 81.226.71.112 (talk) 20:07, 7 November 2007 (UTC)[reply]
The article dosn't contain about HP's TouchSmart Desktop & Notebook PCs. HP TouchSmart Desktop Page SRChiP (talk) 03:46, 16 May 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I came to this page in search of information on Apple's patents on multitouch. It is reported that the Motorola Droid will not have multitouch in the USA. It is speculated that this is the result of patent encumberance on the multitouch technology (by Apple). I think a section regarding patent would be appropriate. I don't care who owns the patents, only information about whatever patents are encumbering this technology. 24.193.42.103 (talk) 01:08, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I did an extensive addition of this section, then after reading the above comment, I considered removing both my addition and reference to various other commercial computers as I really agree with the above point. However, in the meantime, another editor (Talk) drastically shortened my addition. Unfortunately, the revision was factually inaccurate. I corrected the inaccuracies and added references for all the defects alleged in the revised revised section. Tbonge (talk) 14:01, 19 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The MacBook Pros already have MultiTouch (before the MacBook Air), but i'm not sure if the standard MacBooks have MultiTouch. Could someone verify this for me? Chris 02:56, 28 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]
If I understand correctly, some IBM tablets have "MultiTouch" screens - but in their case, it means you can either use a wacom pen or a finger. Nowhere do they boast multi-finger recognition (so it's a different technology) Fry-kun (talk) 01:37, 15 May 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed - this needs clarification. Both WACOM and N-TRIG are marketing devices as multi-touch which are becoming popular in a number of 'convertible' laptop/tablet PC's. I had thought that in these cases the term multitouch referred to multiple touch input methods rather than the ability of the hardware to recognise multiple simultaneous points of contact, but there's a video here http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=GeWN2p6jYaA showing a VP from N-TRIG demoing true multitouch and claiming that it's the same technology used in current OEM applications. I suspect the limiting factor here is not the hardware but the operating systems. Perhaps we'll see a Vista patch and updated driver that'll integrate some of the Microsoft Surface OS features in the not too distant future... (Sircompo (talk) 21:18, 22 May 2008 (UTC))[reply]
N-Trig's digitizer is capable of differentiating and reporting multiple simultaneous finger touches. Wacom digitizers today support only one finger. However that doesn't stop the marketeers from claiming 'dual-touch' or 'multi-touch' if a stylus and one touch are detected. Perhaps that should be noted. 209.184.7.130 (talk) 19:26, 12 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]
Is HTC Touch Diamond(TouchFLO 3D) multi-touch tech or single point touch tech? TouchFLO is single point touch. There is nothing about multi-touch or single-touch in TouchFLO 3D . --CCFS (talk) 04:55, 16 September 2008 (UTC)[reply]
The article talks about the first paper about multi-touch but there is no information about that paper given. I added a "Citation needed" as I did not find the paper. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.66.237.56 (talk) 12:31, 11 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]
== Why Android is not launching Multi touch feature, even though it got a lopt of hardware support?
Multi-touch Displays vs. Multi-touch Controllers seems quite a bad distinctions, also the controllers section does not feature any real controllers, mostly laptops with multi-touch. If the multi-touch products should be grouped, how about products which are available to end users and those which are not (concept stage, limited release like Surface). --84.178.124.30 (talk) 17:24, 22 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]
"Including, but not limited to" is lawyer-speak and is unnecessary since "including" implies additional items already. --Unimath (talk) 12:45, 2 September 2009 (UTC)[reply]
It seems that N-Trig is the only maker of multi-touch displays for notebooks. Maybe there should be a section on that in the article. I guess there are few other businesses capable of producing any kind of multi-touch device, we could make a list. --84.178.97.215 (talk) 08:19, 15 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
Heh and I thought that products like the Apple I Phone/Pod and Nintendo DS had only finger touch technologies. But guess I was wrong. This seems more interesting. Like you can get work more done more quicker etc... Zeta Nova 23:06, 23 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
This seems more like a demo to me. They made a publicity stunt half a year ago, but there is still no word on when this product might be available. There are a lot of companies which could do an impressive tech demo, but this does not mean these should be included on Wikipedia. If there is no more information on this, is should be deleted, because it is a mix of advertisement and speculation. Also it is not a full touch screen, just a little screen which serves as touch pad, so I'm moving it into the relevant section. --84.178.61.194 (talk) 11:21, 26 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The article is full of non-notable product listings. It reads like an advertisement for these products. They should not be there at all, unless they made some notable contribution to the development of multi-touch technology. Otherwise, all the rest must be deleted. Besides, it's usually the operating system, and the company that manufactured the screen, that is responsible.--Lester 06:25, 4 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The ipod touch has been released before the iphone. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 212.45.63.107 (talk) 22:38, 27 November 2009 (UTC)[reply]
I removed this from the article:
"As of the beginning of November 2009, there are no touch-enabled laptops with resolutions equal to or higher than (W)SXGA+ (1680x1050).
The highest-resolution touch-enabled laptops which approach WSXGA+ are the Lenovo T400S (1440x900 or (W)XGA+/(W)SXGA), and the Dell Studio 17 (1600x900; however a 1920x1050 resolution and 8-core processor version exists for the non-touchscreen model, and those options are "in the works"<ref>http://en.community.dell.com/blogs/direct2dell/archive/2009/11/20/multi-touch-comes-to-dell-s-studio-17.aspx</ref> to be added to the touch model).
As of the beginning of November 2009, all other laptops are at most (W)XGA (1366x768). There have only ever been a handful of tablet PCs with high resolution (e.g. Toshiba m200 with 1400x900, circa 2004), which are all no longer produced."
It seems like this statement is wrong- most laptops have resolutions no higher than WSXGA+ (1680x1050). The fact that the Dell Studio 17 doesn't have a 1920x1050 multi-touch option is not exactly a trend. Furthermore, many all-in-ones such as the Sony Vaio L-series have 1080p screens. Thecurran91 (talk) 22:42, 24 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]
The intro paragraph used to say that the "Multi-touch" belongs to Apple. That's not backed up by facts. The facts are:
So there's nothing to confirm the validity of their claim, and a lot to doubt. The article should be careful not to overstate Apple's claim. Gronky (talk) 02:18, 8 March 2010 (UTC)[reply]
This article fails to do its job since it never actually defines "Multi-touch" at all. Instead, it rambles on and on about the history of Multi-touch technology, how it physically operates, etc. I would think that most people would come here to find out what the heck it even MEANS, and how it's different from using the single-touch touchpad. I mean, in what circumstance would I want to send to separate commands to the computer with two fingers? I can't think of a single instance. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.126.226.142 (talk) 17:19, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hmm, I'm not seeing that. If you watch the video, he actually says they "invented a new technology called Multi-Touch" (note capitalization -- it appears on screen as he says it). He then lists "Multi-finger gestures" as one feature of it, and also compares it to other touch screens, listing some features unique to their implementation. It sounds to me like "Multi-Touch" is the name for Apple's implementation of it, but not that he's claiming to have invented multi-touch itself.
The issue is confused by two things. First, Apple tends to use English words as product names, which often match exactly the generic product categories that other companies also use. Off the top of my head: "System {version number}", "CD" and "TV", "Scanner", "USB Mouse", "USB Modem", "Keyboard" and "Adjustable Keyboard", and "Network Server". Second, if you look at other Apple product announcements he does tend to say "invented" where other people might say "implemented". For example, he also said they "invented" the App Store -- again, note the capitalization, which indicates an Apple implementation, not the concept itself. I don't think anyone assumed he meant that Apple invented the idea of selling Apps in a Store (ha!), nor do I think that Apple intended that, but simply that Apple had built their own and that "App Store" was their name for it.
I'm not sure what the purpose of this half of the sentence is -- it sounds unnecessarily argumentative, anyway. Should we go into all the Apple product articles on wikipedia and add "Apple false claimed to have 'invented {noun}'"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.163.72.2 (talk) 18:16, 28 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Hi, I removed the erroneous statement that multi-touch began in 1982 as a number of references in the article show this is not the case, and the edit in the summary that multi touch isn't mutual capacitance, is also incorrect. Multi-touch, has appeared through a number of research institutes and programs prior to 1982, this can already be seen in the article through work done independently by CERN and others. Capacitance screens can take a number of inputs and do fit the criteria for multi-touch even when the inputs were on the same x or y plane as the original button press and was only limited by the sensitivity of the electronics on the grid for how many changes in capacitance it could register, as the electronics became finer more and more x/y captors/grids were added and the eventual system was used in a multi-touch configuration. Khukri 15:12, 31 July 2010 (UTC)[reply]
As there has been nothing to dispute that the CERN x/y mutual capacitance touch panel, which is identical to other systems that have been given the label multi-touch using the same technology i.e. Bell Labs multi-touch, IPod etc, I will remove the statement that Toronto had the first multi-touch system in 1982 as incorrect. I have shown that the CERN system pre-dates the Toronto system, and this is verifiable (1, 2, 3, 4) with the links in the article. Regarding the question of Buxton saying it is the first, it is given that he is an expert in MMIs and his thoughts have been used as a reference by subsequent news paper articles etc, but there is no indication he was aware of the CERN system, and would seem only natural he attributes the first multi-touch system he was aware of coming from Toronto as he was directly involved with the University of Toronto in later developments, and was certainly more in his immediate focus than European developments. Cheers Khukri 08:20, 4 August 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Wellner undoubtedly did this, and it is specifically referenced on page 29 of his PhD Thesis: P D Wellner "Interacting with Paper on the DigitalDesk", PhD Thesis, University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory, October 1993. It appears that this should be the cited reference, because the youtube video currently referenced was not published until 2008 (it may well have been made in 1991, but it does not appear to have been published then - that is, it does not appear to be verifiable in the sense required by wikipedia). Although there are earlier papers on DigitalDesk, none of them appear to mention multi-finger gestures.
Separately, there is the issue of whether DigitalDesk should be appearing here at all, since it was primarily a camera based system, not relying on touch (though it did use vibration to pick up taps). — Preceding unsigned comment added by Urilabob (talk • contribs) 02:42, 15 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]
It would be really useful, in the table in the "Multi-touch gestures" section, to add a column listing what typical functions each gesture performs. At least it would be useful to us fogies who haven't got a smartphone yet.--ChetvornoTALK 19:09, 6 June 2012 (UTC)[reply]
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Small-scale touch devices are rapidly becoming commonplace, with the number of touch screen telephones expected to increase from 200,000 shipped in 2006 to 21 million in 2012.[24]
A few companies are focusing on large-scale surface computing rather than personal electronics, either large multi-touch tables or wall surfaces. These systems are generally used by government organizations, museums, and companies as a means of information or exhibit display.
This last item has no citation, and the statement is vague, making it difficult to ascertain the intended meaning, let alone the time frame. This sentence currently appears under the heading "Implementations," and it is followed by a brief statement about DIY touchscreens, so perhaps it refers to availability of multi-touch screens as components rather than popular consumer products (mobile phones, tablets, laptops computers)? Or perhaps it is out of place? Clarification would be welcome.In the past few years, several companies have released products that use multi-touch.
George9eg (talk) 06:49, 18 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
When I was searching to find pages that related to "Pinch Technology", I was directed into page "Multi-touch". This two pages have no connection together. Please correct it and relate "Pinch Technology" to page "Pinch analysis". thanks.Shahriar70 (talk) 23:15, 27 January 2015 (UTC)[reply]
This article covers such a vast subject that it leaves out too many details, with no clue about where to find the missing info... What are the most common current standard touch/multitouch hardware interfaces, for external monitors etc? USB? Serial port? What else? What article does/should cover this?-71.174.184.36 (talk) 13:25, 16 March 2016 (UTC)[reply]
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