Everything about Multi-touch
Touchscreen interactions using multiple fingers
In computing, multi-touch is technology that enables a surface to recognize the presence of more than one point of contact with the surface at the same time. The origins of multitouch began at CERN, MIT, University of Toronto, Carnegie Mellon University and Bell Labs in the 1970s. CERN started using multi-touch screens as early as 1976 for the controls of the Super Proton Synchrotron. Capacitive multi-touch displays were popularized by Apple's iPhone in 2007. Multi-touch may be used to implement additional functionality, such as pinch to zoom or to activate certain subroutines attached to predefined gestures using gesture recognition. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Multi-touchA 5-minute orientation
- Skim a recent paper: Systematic Review of Attribution Modeling Methods Resolving Bias in Multi Touch JourneysInfluential work since 2022
- Pick up a classic book: Touch in virtual environmentsThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Multi-touch gestures for pre-kindergarten childrenCited 97 times
- Go sideways: TouchscreenA closely related topic
- Go sideways: TouchpadA closely related topic
📖 Definitions
Adjective Of a computer tablet or touch-screen interface, accepting more than one touch at the same time.
Noun Multi-touch capability.
🗂️ The subject at a glance
🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Multi-touch gestures for pre-kindergarten children
Multi‐touch tables and collaborative learning
A multi-touch three dimensional touch-sensitive tablet
It's All in the Touch: Authenticating Users With HOST Gestures on Multi-Touch Screen Devices
A multi-purpose photocell and touch circuit amplifier
Eliciting preschoolers’ number abilities using open, multi-touch environments
Scaling up multi-touch selection and querying: Interfaces and applications for combining mobile multi-touch input with large-scale visualization displays
Efficient Multi-Touch Detection Algorithm for Large Touch Screen Panels
🆕 Influential since 2022
Systematic Review of Attribution Modeling Methods Resolving Bias in Multi Touch Journeys
Tac2Structure: Object Surface Reconstruction Only Through Multi Times Touch
Dynamic shaping of multi-touch stimuli by programmable acoustic metamaterial
3D-ElectroZip touch: multi-directional haptic feedback with electro-ribbon zipping actuators
Generative AI-Driven Hierarchical Multi-Agent Framework for Zero-Touch Optical Networks
📚 Books worth reading
Touch in virtual environmentsMargaret L. McLaughlin, Joao P. Hespanha · 2001
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