new to touch

New To Touch

PRESENTED BY:ARSALAN ZAFARYASIR ALTAFZAID HAMEEDSHAFAQAT ALI

Outline• Touch technology

• Multi-touch

• Problems of traditional keypad

• Advantages of multi-touch

• Companies benefited using multi-touch technology

• Business value of multi-touch

• Limitations of touch technology

• Case Study

• Case study questions & answers

What is a touch screen?

• A touch screen is an Input Device that allows user to operate a PC by Simply touching the screen.

• The display screen has a Sensitive Glass placed on it and we could the desired Input by touching it.

• A touch Screen is based on CRT (Cathode Ray Tube) Technology, that accepts direct on screen input

Brief History

• 1965 : Invented by E.A. Johnson for air traffic control

• 1971 : Brought into public domain by Elographics, Inc.

• 1983 : HP-150 (personal touch screen computer) by Hewlett-

Packard

• 1993 : Apple’s Newton and IBM’s Simon

• 2002 : Microsoft’s Windows XP Tablet

• 2007 : Apple’s iPhone (Multi-touch)

When is it Applicable?

• Allows users to interact directly with what is being displayed

• Can be used without any intermediate device

• Found in modern smartphones, video games, navigation systems, etc. .

Multi-touch• Recognize the presence of two or more points

• Not new, Academic and commercial researchers have been working on multi-touch technology for years

• Used in ATMs, airport kiosks etc.

• Used to Pinch Zoom and drag.

Why is Multi-touch everywhere?• More versatile than single-touch interfaces

• Allows to use one or more fingers to perform special gestures

• Easier to remember than commands

• Do not have to be learned

• Display used as input device combine with GUI

• Real-time interaction for users

• Reduces buttons and menus ,making UI simpler

• Improved flexibility of customization

What is ‘new’ to the touch?

•New in mobile market• Introduced into the market through

Apple’s iPhone (2007)

•Replaces traditional keypads

Problems with traditional keypads

• Complex UI with lots of menus and buttons

• Need to remember the commands

• Display must be used for single purpose at a time

• Doesn’t support free hand applications

• Less flexible

• Difficult to adopt for new users

• Not user friendly for old users

• Not suitable for autistics

Other companies adopted multi-touch

• Microsoft

• Dell

• Google

• HP

Windows Touch• Browse online newspapers

• flick through photo albums

• shuffle files and folders using nothing but your fingers.

HP’s touch smart• Lets you use two fingers at once to manipulate images

on the screen

• Make on-screen gestures designating specific commands without using cursors or scroll bars

• Casual computing (For example: Putting on music while preparing dinner)

Touch technology changes life• Helps an autistic

• An easy-to-use computer for students in early grades

• Ease of use for older User

• Helpful to people who can’t grasp a mouse

Expected Fields• Customers might use touch to place orders with a retailer

• Conduct virtual video service calls

• Utilize social networking for business

• Allows visitors to check out a virtual visitor’s Center

• Video chats with remote workers through a built-in Webcam

• Use microphone, access e-mail and the Internet, and manage contacts, calendar items, and photos Without using keyboard and mouse.

• In Cinemas, Gas and Fuel Stations, In Cars.

The revolution touch screen brings

• iPhone users in U.S. had grown at a rate of 159 percent in August 2009 compared to past year with 23.8 million users.

• 58 percent of touchscreen mobile devices are expected to contribute to the worldwide mobile devices sales by 2013.

Market size of touch screen mobile phone

• 2010 : $4.58 billion

• 2011 : $6.09 billion

• 2012 : $9.65 billion

Growth of touch screen mobile phone unit

2010 : 494 million units

2011 : 665 million units

2012 : 1.35 billion units

Limitations

• not a realistic replacement for keyboard input

• large display requirement

• difficult to select small items

• are not as accurate as traditional mouse and physical button-navigated applications

• having a big bright screen and needing massive computing power to run this means a very low battery life

• in direct sunlight it is much less effective and most of the time very difficult to read the screen

• if a touchscreen devise were to crash the whole screen would be unresponsive, and because of the lack of buttons recovering it would be very difficult

Future of touch technology• It’s too early to know if the new multi-touch interface will ever be as

popular as the mouse-driven graphical user interface

• But till today it is showing the positive signs

Conclusion• As it is very friendly, fast, accurate, easy for the

beginners and fun to operate. It has been widely accepted.

• Today, This technology is been adopted by computer, mobile users of all abilities because it is innovative and simple.

• In future there will be no use of mouse and keyboards as they will be replaced by touch screens for sure.

• Designers are trying to use touch screen to simplify input commands.