Christian Heilmann

Now this is a cool touchscreen

Sunday, February 12th, 2006 at 10:53 am

Jeff Han is doing some research on Bi-manual, multi-point, and multi-user interactions on a graphical interaction surface and watching the 17MB demo reel got me hooked on the idea. The accessibility of it of course is not mentionable, but how cool would it be to sort your digital pictures by dragging them with your finger or even use this interface for card sorting exercises resulting in an XML sitemap?

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