A good touch interface is crucial for a tablet app to yield a good experience for the user. Written by James Kendrick, Contributor Aug. 4, 2011 at 5:55 a.m. PT Chances are you have picked up a ...

Touch and hand gesture technologies are already seeing good market reception in a number of smartphones and Nintendo’s Wii. Other interface approaches seeing traction include speech recognition ...

A touchscreen provides the simplest, most direct user interface with a computer. First developed in the 1970s by Elo TouchSystems, touchscreens allow users to just point at what they want to select.

Microsoft demonstrated its multitouch interface for its upcoming Windows 7 operating system on Tuesday. The interface provides a touch-screen input for users to interact with their computers ...

Touch screens also increase the speed of tasks. When a user picks up a computer mouse or touches a trackball, there is always a moment of uncertainty as he has to locate the pointer, adjust his ...

Throughout 2005, Apple continued to apply for numerous touch-screen technology patents. These patents aren't simply attributable to the rumored touch-screen iPod. Many of the patents have shown ...

The touch screen user interface often forces a user to use both hands to operate a smartphone. With capacitive sensing, it is possible to create a special gesture interface that allows users to ...

Apple's always said it won't make a touchscreen laptop, but that could be changing. Here's what you need to know about why Apple doesn't make a touchscreen Mac, but could do in the future.

Multi-touch is simply an extension of the regular touch-screen user interface, using two or more fingers instead of one. We’ve used single-finger gestures before, although we didn’t call it that.

Researchers at Disney and Carnegie Mellon develop Touche, an interface system where multiple gestures can be added to existing touch screens and other objects, including "smart doorknobs." ...

OmniTouch displays interface on user's hand. 11 / 12. ... Others can't "read" surfaces beyond those of the user's own body or they lack the ability to respond to touch/drag motions.

Windows 7's multitouch interface uses the Microsoft Surface technology to provide users with a more natural way to interact directly with computing devices. Topics ...