MULTITOUCH TECHNOLOGY

Multitouch Technology



Multitouch Technology

What problems does mulittouch technology solve?

There are various issues solved by multi-touch technology number one is of the space that many input devices like a mouse and keyboards took. It has provided people with a new stylus, which includes an invisible interface, which enables people to interact with information in several innovative ways. Secondly a wide range of mapping tools, have provided users with a much more sophisticated way of interacting applications like, Gis data, weather information, real time controlling of traffic. It has provided users with a much more interactive and richer experience, along with that interfaces with large format have allowed multiple users, to interact with the same device simultaneously at the same time. Lastly Multi touch interfaces (Wixon & Wigdor, (2010), pp.23-45) are designed in such a pattern, which can recognize intuitive gestures, a technology that enables users to see the response as natural. Through the use of this experience, a user can just simply move a document or image, by just swiping a finger.

What are the advantages and disadvantages of multitouch interfaces? How useful are they? Explain.

Multi touch technology (Kaindl, 2010, pp.123-145) is a very basic and intuitive technology, as there is no formal training required for it comes more naturally to human brain. This technology has enabled users to work in a more efficient manner on different tasks, rather than an individual working on a personal computer, a technology which separates the creative collaboration of a person working on his tasks. The greatest triumph of this technology is the multi user experience that it offers, which allows a collaborative study for a whole group of people, which in previous technologies was not possible.

Multi-touch technology, which has just gained the recognition in the market place, is quite expensive for everyone to afford. Privacy is also an issue. Consider there is test being conduct in an educational institution, and there are more than two students on a single table, there could be a case where one student deletes or changes the answer of another student. It has made the administration of a class room full of students very easy, as a teacher would not have to pay attention to every student individually, taking the test of students and then generating a score through software installed on every student's device. The teacher would have the ability to access the device of each and every student, ...