This is How Multi-Touch Should Work [Video]

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Posted October 13, 2009 at 12:43pm by Shalom Levytam

10/GUI and Con10uum are concepts by R. Clayton Miller which aim to define how an ideal multi-touch system would work.

10/GUI adapts the touch interface to the proven posture of the mouse. By splitting the touch surface from the screen 10/GUI creates a one to one pad on which all ten fingers can rest as well as interact. A hypered resistive capacitive array detects the fingers positions and detect pressure to register individual finger presses.

Con10uum represents a radical rethinking of the way information and interaction spaces are managed on a flat display. Rather then creating windows at often arbitrary positions on a 2 dimension plane. Con10uum organizes them linearly. New windows arrive from one side, occupy the full height of the screen, and are manipulable through a consistent vocabulary of multi-touch interaction.

Much more in the video below...

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mason - October 14, 2009 at 12:46pm

That's sick!

JDavila - October 13, 2009 at 9:18pm

As neat as it may seen, the concept itself is nice, but the hardware suggestion may not be as practical as the software approach. Let's be honest: window management can be as personalized as you like it to be, but hardware clutter is not practical. The pad beneath the keyboard seems unpractical and not as comfy as expected to me. All in all, the GUI seems clean, nice and intuitive, but then again, the hardware approach has to be worked on... a lot.

JC - October 13, 2009 at 4:50pm

I don't like the fact that you can't see see which way the windows are. Say you have 10 windows open: 3 browser, 4 text, 3 photo... Being in one of the text-editor windows, you wish to go to one of the browser ones. Do you go right or do you go left? Windows 7 places thunbnails at the bottom of the screen (in a way similar to Mac OS) and groups them by program. Thus, all browser windows, text-edit windows, photo-editor, etc will be accessible via a different thumbnail. Clicking on the thumbnails displays the windows next to each other, as shown here. From any window, you may simply click on the thumbnail of the desired program and all windows show up neatly. If Con10uum showed which way the windows are, it would be closer to perfection.

byronchurch - October 13, 2009 at 4:02pm

Da..! Wish Apple would turn the pad loose ! I think I should just get a Bamboo pad so I can get touchy while i wait ..

dest - October 13, 2009 at 1:20pm

Cool

rAg - October 13, 2009 at 1:11pm

Why do i get a feeling that this will be the OS in the rumored apple tablet!! :|