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[ACM Press the SIGCHI conference - San Francisco, California, United States (1985..-..)] Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems - CHI '85 - A multi-touch three dimensional touch-sensitive tablet

✍ Scribed by Lee, SK; Buxton, William; Smith, K. C.

Book ID
121758900
Publisher
ACM Press
Year
1985
Weight
369 KB
Category
Article
ISBN-13
9780897911498

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✦ Synopsis

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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