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an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area

A touchscreen is an electronic visual display that can detect the presence and location of a touch within the display area. The term generally refers to touching the display of the device with a finger or hand. Touchscreens can also sense other passive objects, such as a stylus. Touchscreen is common in devices such as all-in-one computers, tablet computers, and smartphones.

Reference: Wikipedia article on 'Touch screen', retrieved 2011-04-26

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Why touch screens?

There is a question on this site on Touchscreens in car consoles which asks on the advantages of touch screens in car consoles. Most answers rather point out why we should not use touch screens in car consoles, and point out numerous disadvantages,…
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Are there any good resources about designing touch screen interfaces?

I am not talking about phones or iPads or other "gadgets". I am talking about applications like kiosk systems (POI - Point of Information/Info Terminals) or HMI (Human Machine Interface). All UI books seem to deal with keyboard and mouse…
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Web Standard for minimum size of touch icons

Regarding menu icons on mobile devices, are there any official web accessibility standards for the minimum size/area of touch?
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Exposing touch screen sensitivity in the UI

Given the growth in the use of touchscreens, how come there's never an obvious touchscreen 'sensitivity' control on screen? Should this control be included in the UI? I'm thinking about kiosk design in particular here. EDIT: The problem I was seeing…
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Should touch image sliders in mobile devices avoid scrolling on touch event?

Imagine a full width image slider that slides to left and right in a page that can scrolled to up and down. When user touches the screen and move her finger to left and right we want to change the slider slide. When user moves her finger vertically…
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How can I indicate that my application is multi-touch enabled?

I've developed a nice visualization that is multi-touch enabled and runs on a big multi-touch display. Now we have made some experiments and placed random users in front of the application. We observed something strange. A lot of people were looking…
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Is touchscreen device more personal and intimate?

I've this personal opinion and I'm trying to validate it: I think that user feel touchscreen device such as iPhone and iPad more personal and intimate because they physically touch the device, unlike the computer where they have one more level of…
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touchscreen navigation

Im looking at methods for displaying navigation on a 17" screen touchscreen kiosk. The primary navigation would be for shopping and be quite complex, ie goes down quite a few levels. Could anyone offer any advice on best practice or methods of…
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Suitable gesture for zooming out on touchscreens

The standard zoom in, is the single finger double tap or pinch. However, sometimes it would be really handy to be able to zoom out using a single finger action. What could such an interaction be?
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How to avoid hiding the region of interest with the finger?

Let's say you have an element, for example a pair of glasses, that you want to put over an existing element on the canvas, a face. This needs to be done with precision. (In this example I could cheat and snap the moving element on a predefined…
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What is the maximum simultaneous users that interact with a multi touch overlay device?

I am developing a JavaScript multi-player game which I want to make multi touch compatible. When shopping for large multi touch overlays such as PQlabs G5 which espouses the capability of detecting up to 50 touch points simultaneously; I see they…
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Is it safe to assume that all modern touch devices support motion sensory user input?

I would like to innovate the efficiency of space utilization on small screens by using 3 dimensional shift controlled by the tilt of the device to pull part of an icon grid toward the user so that all icons, and special information can be more…
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Screen blanking password correspondence issue?

On an Android or other mobile device, why should the idle time that needs to pass before the screen goes blank have to correspond with the time a password is required to unlock the screen? For instance, on my Samsung Galaxy SIII Neo, with password…
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How come your earlobe doesn't 'press buttons' on a smartphone screen during a phone call?

Do screens detect the difference between fingers and other bits of your body ?
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Best practices for button/text arrangement for touchscreen point of sale display GUI

Would it be ill advised to go ahead with a following button arrangement for a point of sale display touchscreen GUI? It somehow doesn't feel right, I've been toying around with it all morning but can't get an ideal placement for all the buttons. ⌫…
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