Multi-Touch Screen Interfaces And Gesture Analysis: A Study

Mrudula Nimbarte
2011 Advanced Computing An International Journal  
The way h ow we h an dle computers today will s oo n change. The future technology will allow us to interact with the computer on different level from the current technology what we are used to. The tools such as the mouse and the keyboard need to communicate with the computer will slowly disappear and be replaced with more comfortable and more natural tools for the human being to use. That future is already here. The rate of how touch screen hardware and applications are used is growing
more » ... and will break new r e c o r d s in n e a r f u t u r e . This new technology requires different ways of detecting inputs from the user -inputs which will be made out of on-screen gestures rather than by clicking of buttons or scrolling mouse wheels. In this pa per w e st udie d the gestures defined for multi-touch screen interfaces, the methods used to detect them and how they are passed on to other applications.
doi:10.5121/acij.2011.2611 fatcat:usgvk3yhpbchxc5nw6ntlzb5qu