Multi-Touch Screen Interfaces And Gesture Analysis: A Study

Abstract

The way how we handle computers today will soon change. The future technology will allow us to interact with the computer on different level from the current technology what we are used to. The tools such as the mouse and the keyboard need to communicate with the computer will slowly disappear and be replaced with more comfortable and more natural tools for the human being to use. That future is already here. The rate of how touch screen hardware and applications are used is growing rapidly and will break new records in near futur e. This new technology requires different ways of detecting inputs from the user - inputs which will be made out of on- screen gestures rather than by clicking of buttons or scrolling mouse wheels. In this paper we studied the gestures defined for multi-touch screen interfaces, the methods used to detect them and how they are passed on to other applications