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A multi-touch three dimensional touch-sensitive tablet

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SK Lee,

William Buxton,

K. C. SmithAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '85: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 21 - 25

https://doi.org/10.1145/317456.317461

Published: 01 April 1985 Publication History

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A prototype touch-sensitive tablet is presented. The tablet's main innovation is that it is capable of sensing more than one point of contact at a time. In addition to being able to provide position coordinates, the tablet also gives a measure of degree of contact, independently for each point of contact. In order to enable multi-touch sensing, the tablet surface is divided into a grid of discrete points. The points are scanned using a recursive area subdivision algorithm. In order to minimize the resolution lost due to the discrete nature of the grid, a novel interpolation scheme has been developed. Finally, the paper briefly discusses how multi-touch sensing, interpolation, and degree of contact sensing can be combined to expand our vocabulary in human-computer interaction.

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A multi-touch three dimensional touch-sensitive tablet
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
2. Mathematics of computing
  1. Mathematical analysis
    1. Numerical analysis
      1. Interpolation

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CHI '85: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 1985

231 pages

ISBN:0897911490

DOI:10.1145/317456

Chairmen:
Lorraine Borman
Northeastern Univ., Evanston, IL
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Raoul Smith
Northeastern Univ., Boston, MA

ACM SIGCHI Bulletin Volume 16, Issue 4
April 1985
201 pages
ISSN:0736-6906
DOI:10.1145/1165385
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