With pervasive smartphones and tablets, the touch interface is assumed for small LCD screens, and we’ve likely all poked and pinched at some screen, only to find it immune to our gestures.

Along with being able to interface with the screen of your Mac mirrored on your iPad using your finger, you can also access Touch Bar controls on the iPad, plus some additional commands.

The system breaks up screen real estate into blocks that work with the segmented ... around the absolute positioning tech because it's not how many people expect a touch interface to behave.

Windows 8 has changed that to a big extent, with things like the Explorer ribbon creating a more touch-optimized interface in desktop mode and, of course, its new full screen apps. Desktop ...

This new device allows an iPod owner to control his or her iPod from a touch panel wherever he or ... come through the stereo system with a large interface to easily manipulate while they go ...

The most recent addition was filed in September 2005 and called "Operation of a computer with touch screen interface". Again, individuals at Apple appear to be spending a lot of time on the ...

Bill Gates will demo a new multi-touch computer and interface today called TouchWall at the Microsoft CEO Summit in Redmond. TouchWall refers to the touch screen hardware setup itself; the ...

go to the Device Manager and open Human Interface Device. If you see any settings to enable or disable HID-compliant touch screen, your device is touch-compatible and if not, it’s not.

This already happened to some extent with the touch screen, an interface that was long dismissed as worthless on popular gadgets because the technology really wasn’t very good. “Touch screen ...

[This piece, written by Microsoft Research’s Mary Czerwinski (pictured below), is the fourth in a series of posts about cutting-edge areas of innovation. The series is sponsored by Microsoft.