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Touchscreen Devices, How they changed our lives (Invention of touchscreen…
Touchscreen Devices, How they changed our lives
Invention of touchscreen devices
What was the initial problem inventor was trying to solve
First finger driven touchscreen 1965, by E.A. Johnson at Royal Radar Establishment in Malvern United Kingdom
Dr. G. Samuel Hurst would further this research, creating resistive touchscreens and was developed almost accidently
"To study atomic physics the research team used an overworked Van de Graff accelerator that was only available at night. Tedious analyses slowed their research. Sam thought of a way to solve that problem. He, Parks, and Thurman Stewart, another doctoral student, used electrically conductive paper to read a pair of x- and y- coordinates. That idea led to the first touch screen for a computer. With this prototype, his students could compute in a few hours what otherwise had taken days to accomplish."
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/04/from-touch-displays-to-the-surface-a-brief-history-of-touchscreen-technology/
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The inital problem was to assist air traffic controllers
The first touchscreen device
Plato IV 1971
Radar by E.A. Johnson, single touch use only 1965
First human controlled multitouch device, developed at the university of Toronto, by Nimish Mehta. It was more of a touch tablet than a touch screen. 1980's
HP-150 MS DOS and 9 inch touchscreen Sony CRT 1980's
1990's touch screen for everyone. in 93 IBM and Bellsouth launched the Simon Personal Communicator, one of the first cell phones with touchscreen technology
"In 1993, IBM and BellSouth teamed up to launch the Simon Personal Communicator, one of the first cellphones with touchscreen technology. It featured paging capabilities, an e-mail and calendar application, an appointment schedule, an address book, a calculator, and a pen-based sketchpad. It also had a resistive touchscreen that required the use of a stylus to navigate through menus and to input data."
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https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2013/04/from-touch-displays-to-the-surface-a-brief-history-of-touchscreen-technology/2/
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In 93, Apple also launched a touchscreen PDA, the MessagePad 100
The open possibilites of touchscreen devices
From the original concept, to modern day use, touchscreen devices have become a huge part of our lives
We are seeing restaurants which are having touch order
Similarly on planes, they have touchscreens on the backseats of the passanger infront of you
So many commercial avenues have embraced this
Seeing touchscreen inside cars and other commercially sold vehicles
Commercialization of Touchscreen Devices
Which company was an early adopter of touchscreen devices
IBM
focus on full computers
Apple
focused on mobile devices, though not called that at the start
Sony
Focused on screens
the products that touchscreen devices have now gone into
car
planes
homes (theromstats
offices
restaurants
gaming
reading (e-readers)
trackpads for laptops
graphic design tablets
phones
tablets
touchscreen deivecs (monitors, laptops)
POS
assortment of electronical device's interface
maps
touchscreen devices can be found in every corner of our lives now.
home
transit (car, bus, subway)
office
schools
The affect this will have on future generations
By growing up with touch devices how will it effect children
information is easily accesible
learning games
regular use will help prepare children for an age of the world which will be quite immersed with touch technology
Education, can it really be a useful tool for growing children through as a means to educate
Posting information for easy to read
use of eBooks vs traditional paper printed books, helping the enviroment
Interactive learning can be positive for students, as it provides the student with immediate feedback if the task is completed properly or improperly
Teachers can bring information right to their students through apps and web systems
Sharing work to your teacher is simpler through online systems
New technologies spawned from the creation of touchscreen devices
mp3 devices, with lack of user interface, with touchscreen, the UI became so much easier for the user to navigate
Higher resolution
"Rules" about how the best way to for users to interact with touch devices. Google is focusing on limiting what developers can do with touch input, so that general norms will be followed
VR spawned from touchscreen, as they are both designed as a way for users to interact with technology. VR is infact trying to take out the touch from screen, and bring it all to a virtual world, were in fact we are touching the VR world
Leap frog, another touch, touchless device for using technolgy
The cons of touchscreen devices
Health Concerns
Eye Strain
Finger Discomfort / Motion Injuries
Lack of Mental Memory
Forced Unnatural postures
Counter to Learning for kids
so many distractions on the mobile devices can harm the learning rate of the child (
https://blog.frontiersin.org/2017/05/09/touchscreens-frontiers-psychology-how-do-toddlers-learn-best-from-touchscreens/
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Somethings a mouse and keyboard are better for
typing homework
gaming on PC
editing designs and layouts