When Steve Jobs first demonstrated “the pinch”—the
two-finger gesture for zooming in and out of photos
and Web pages on the iPhone, he not only shook up
the mobile phone industry—the entire digital world
took notice. The Apple iPhone’s multitouch features
dramatized new ways of using touch to interact with
software and devices.
Touch interfaces are not new. People use them
every day to get money from ATMs or to check into
flights at airport kiosks. Academic and commercial
researchers have been working on multitouch
technology for years. What Apple did was to make
multitouch more exciting and relevant, popularizing
it just as it did in the 1980s with the mouse and the
graphical user interface. (These had also been
invented elsewhere.)
Multitouch interfaces are potentially more
versatile than single-touch interfaces. They allow
you to use one or more fingers to perform special
gestures that manipulate lists or objects on a screen
without moving a mouse, pressing buttons, turning
scroll wheels, or striking keys. They take different
actions depending on how many fingers they detect
and which gestures a user performs. Multitouch
gestures are easier to remember than commands
because they are based on ingrained human movements
that do not have to be learned, scientists say.
When Steve Jobs first demonstrated “the pinch”—the
two-finger gesture for zooming in and out of photos
and Web pages on the iPhone, he not only shook up
the mobile phone industry—the entire digital world
took notice. The Apple iPhone’s multitouch features
dramatized new ways of using touch to interact with
software and devices.
Touch interfaces are not new. People use them
every day to get money from ATMs or to check into
flights at airport kiosks. Academic and commercial
researchers have been working on multitouch
technology for years. What Apple did was to make
multitouch more exciting and relevant, popularizing
it just as it did in the 1980s with the mouse and the
graphical user interface. (These had also been
invented elsewhere.)
Multitouch interfaces are potentially more
versatile than single-touch interfaces. They allow
you to use one or more fingers to perform special
gestures that manipulate lists or objects on a screen
without moving a mouse, pressing buttons, turning
scroll wheels, or striking keys. They take different
actions depending on how many fingers they detect
and which gestures a user performs. Multitouch
gestures are easier to remember than commands
because they are based on ingrained human movements
that do not have to be learned, scientists say.
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