Multi-touch table

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Multi-touch table
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Outline

• What is a Multi-touch table
• History of Multi-touch technology
• DIY your own Multi-touch table
• Current Use
• Other Approach
• Conclusion

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What is a Multi-touch table

• A table
• Multi-touch functionality
• Interactive Screen
• Computer
• Add-on
• Wireless connection
• Useful app

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What is a Multi-touch table



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What is a Multi-touch table
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History of Multi-touch technology
All start from here
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History of Multi-touch technology
1972 PLATO IV Touch Screen Terminal
(Computer-based Education Research
Laboratory University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champain)
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History of Multi-touch technology
Reference http//www.i-techcompany.com/touchscree
n.html
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History of Multi-touch technology

• 1982 Flexible Machine Interface (Nimish Mehta ,
  University of Toronto).
• 1983 Video Place / Video Desk (Myron Krueger)
• http//youtube.com/watch?vdmmxVA5xhuo
• 1984 Multi-Touch Screen (Bob Boie, Bell Labs,
  Murray Hill NJ)

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History of Multi-touch technology
1986 Apple Desktop Bus (ADB) and the
Trackball Scroller Init (Apple Computer /
University of Toronto)
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History of Multi-touch technology
1991 Digital Desk (Pierre Wellner, Rank
Xerox EuroPARC, Cambridge)
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History of Multi-touch technology
1992 Simon (IBM Bell South)
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History of Multi-touch technology
1992 Wacom (Japan)
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History of Multi-touch technology
2002 Jun Rekimoto Sony Computer Science
Laboratories
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History of Multi-touch technology
2007 Apple iPhone
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History of Multi-touch technology
2007 Microsoft Surface Computing
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History of Multi-touch technology
2008 N-trig
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History of Multi-touch technology

• Reference
• Bill buxton
• http//www.billbuxton.com/multitouchOverview.html

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DIY Time
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DIY Time

• Frustrated Total Internal Reflection

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DIY Time

• Diffused Illumination

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DIY Time

• Surface

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DIY Time

• ???? (???)
• ?????? (IR Illuminator)
• ??? (Projector)
• ???? (Diffuser)
• ?????? (IR Camera/Webcam)
• ?? (??)
• ??? (???????? Table)
• ??
• TouchLib (???????)

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DIY Time

• ??????
• http//www.led-shop.com.tw/

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DIY Time

• ???? (Diffuser)
• ??? (Tracing Paper)
• Rosco Grey
• Lee Filter 225
• Lee Filter 273 NT 3,800
• ???
• ????????
• ??????????

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DIY Time

• ???? (Diffuser)
• ??? (Tracing Paper)
• Rosco Grey
• Lee Filter 225
• Lee Filter 273 NT 3,800
• ???
• ????????
• ??????????

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DIY Time

• ?????? (IR Camera/Webcam)

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DIY Time

• TouchLib
• http//nuigroup.com/touchlib/

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DIY Time
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DIY Time

• Reference
• http//uiui.mmdays.com/2008/05/08/diy-surface-tabl
  e-2/

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Current Use

• CNN
• Perceptive Pixel
• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vvb5g19Nn4Cc
• Laptop
• HP TouchSmart tx2z
• Dell Latitude XT
• EEE PC 900

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Current Use

• ?????
• http//ippr.csie.ntu.edu.tw/
• ????? - ???????????
• I-m-Top ??????
• ???? (Virtual Panel)

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Current Use

• NIKE 6453 TPE
• No.36, ??????187?

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Other Approach

• Real-time Tracking Finger
• ?? -- Cardiff University
• Microsoft ThinSight
• Diamond Table - MERL
• Johnny Chung Lee
• Tracking Your Fingers with the Wiimote
• http//johnnylee.net/projects/wii/
• http//johnnylee.net/projects/thesis/
• http//steadycam.org/

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Conclusion

• Multi-touch (multi-user) technology will be
  become common in our life in future.
• More innovative human-computer interactive device
  will be invented.