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Two-finger input with a standard touch screen

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UIST '07: Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

Pages 169 - 172

https://doi.org/10.1145/1294211.1294239

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Most current implementations of multi-touch screens are still too expensive or too bulky for widespread adoption. To improve this situation, this work describes the electronics and software needed to collect more data than one pair of coordinates from a standard 4-wire touch screen. With this system, one can measure the pressure of a single touch and approximately sense the coordinates of two touches occurring simultaneously. Naturally, the system cannot offer the accuracy and versatility of full multi-touch screens. Nonetheless, several example applications ranging from painting to zooming demonstrate a broad spectrum of use.

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Wimmer RGross MNunes NDo EBrewster SOakley I(2011)Grasp sensing for human-computer interactionProceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction10.1145/1935701.1935745(221-228)Online publication date: 22-Jan-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1935701.1935745
Izadi SHodges SButler AWest DRrustemi AMolloy MBuxton W(2009)ThinSightCommunications of the ACM10.1145/1610252.161027752:12(90-98)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2009
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1610252.1610277

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Two-finger input with a standard touch screen
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens

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Wimmer RGross MNunes NDo EBrewster SOakley I(2011)Grasp sensing for human-computer interactionProceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction10.1145/1935701.1935745(221-228)Online publication date: 22-Jan-2011
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Izadi SHodges SButler AWest DRrustemi AMolloy MBuxton W(2009)ThinSightCommunications of the ACM10.1145/1610252.161027752:12(90-98)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2009
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