It’s pretty safe believe everyone today, and if not everyone- majority of people, have used or at least seen some sort of touch screen technology. Whether it is via ones smartphone, GPS, or any kiosk, touch screen technology has been on the rise since the early 1960’s. According to “New Interfaces at the Touch of a Fingertip”, “Touch-screen technology has been the subject of research since the early 1970s” (Nichols). One may need to apply pressure to their device’s screen to activate a specific command, or instead, use anything that holds an electric charge such as human skin. Touch technology has become very prevalent in today’s world and this paper will start by discussing the history behind touch technology, followed by further examining how two common touch technologies, capacitive and resistive, work as well as the advantages and disadvantages for each. Before diving into the technicality of how they work, it’s important to take a look at the history and evolution of its making. The timeline published on NPR by Nicole Cohen, “A History Of Touch-Screen Technology” allows one to really see the growth over the years of the development to such technology. Air traffic control technology in 1965 by E.A Johnson is thought to have been the first touch screen technology. A couple years later in 1965, PLATO IV terminal was used in educational classrooms at the University of Illinois, which allowed students to answer questions via this touch screen. We see this
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As the use of computers and other electronic devices is growing by day, new and better technologies in the way that these devices are made are finding their way into the computer world. The result of this has been an increase in computer related applications, better electronics and more complex systems being developed for use (Norman, 2007). As such, this has prompted different electronic designers to come up with the most appropriate technologies that make it easier for different users to interact with the availed technologies. The result of this has been the product of both the Multi-Touch Screen and the Mouse-Driven Screens interfaces.
Every since I was a child, computers fascinated me. I wondered how a computer can display pictures and words very quickly onto the screen. Who invented the computer and how can all of the websites and applications work? It amazes me how many programmers program applications in order for the world population to use on a daily basis.
Mountain View, CA – November 18, 2015 – Qeexo have been developing software that will revolutionize how we interact with our smartphones. This technology developed by Qeexo can enhance the user experience with currently used smartphone devices with just a software upgrade. Almost all smartphones have the hardware capabilities of this functionality, but at Qeexo, they have identified that most Android running flagship smartphones this year would just need this software to utilize Qeexo’s 3D finger sensing technology called “FingerSense”. This provides a new way to tweak your settings and interact on a whole new axis.
Since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution in the 1860’s, people have rapidly improved people’s lives with technology. The first generations of computers started the base of computers and their system. These generations were influenced by inventers like Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Steve Wozniok facilitated the computers, tablets, and smart phone we use today. With tablets and smart phone being so accessible it is no surprise that computers are not as popular as they used to. Many people would prefer to have an item that can fit in their back pocket or bag, instead of having to carry a big, space consuming item. They would rather have a hand held tablet and can fit almost any where somebody needs it to. Everywhere there is technology;
The rats were trained on a novel behavioral task designed in the ABET system from Lafayette Instrument Company; Lafayette, IN USA. Training occurred in similar manner as described for 5CSRT, where the rat was presented a white square stimulus in the center of the screen to invoke the touching behavior on Bussey-Saksida capacitive touchscreen through the insert window. The rats touched the location on this 765x1024 pixel capacitive touchscreen and received a sucrose spurt as a reward delivered through a solenoid valve (Clippard Instrument Laboratory, Inc.). The second stage of training was to get the rats to initiate the trial by breaking the tray beam, thus controlling the trial initiation. For every initiated trial, the rat was presented a white square of 275x275pixel to make the approach as stereotaxic as possible. The final stage of the training involved breaking of the IR beam passing through the insert’s window, to initiate the pattern reversal of the presented stimulus on the screen. The initial time between pattern reversal and the capacitive touch was 2sec, which was further reduced to 1sec for criterion testing. The criterion for the task was set to ~80% of In-time capacitive touches with less than 20% late
The classic menaces to society are typically mass murderers, child abusers, or even rapist. Technology may not be as harsh, but it can be labeled dangerous for our society, therefore a clear ‘menace’. While reading “The Touch Screen Generation” by Hanna Rosin, she thought an overabundance of technology was detrimental to development, meanwhile she steadfast on the ideal that parental control over technology could make all the difference. Rosin believed technology had differing effects depending on a person’s motives with technology. In “Digital Detox” Claire Suddath believed society should become less concerned with mobile devices, and become better acclimated with less technology dependency.
The beginning of the twenty-first century marks the time where disruption has become a way of life. The world is changing at such an accelerating pace. If there is anything certain about this millennium, it is the pace of change. However, as a society we have looked into the face of change and laughed. How many times have we picked up new technology or technological devices that we thought we could have lived without, only to have them play such an integral part in our lives that we find ourselves unable to function a day or even a couple of hours without them? Some 47 years ago in his ground-breaking science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), Stanley Kubrick presented a fantasized handheld touchscreen device that audiences today would recognise as bearing an uncanny resemblance to the touchscreen iPads many own today (Arnold, 2016).
Our Smartphones are touchscreen and we are used to touchscreen tablets so now is the time for touchscreen laptops. One advantage these laptops are having is the Keyboard on which most of the computer functions are dependent. The machine on which you can ‘Touch’ or ‘Type’.
With modern technology, research and experiments are being performed by using some form of electronics. In public settings more than half of the individuals are doing some form of activity with their hand held device. They are listening to music, on social media, taking pictures, or communicating on it. Since this generation co-habituates with electronics, forming rehabilitation techniques that incorporate electronics helps to get the individuals involved more comfortably.
There are a lot of electronics in the world such as computers, phones, and TV’s, but the most concerning are the phones we use. A lot of people are on the Internet often and not noticing the things around them. The phones are melting our brains slowly the more we are on them, deforming our fingers, and making it harder how we communicate with the people around us.
Technology has, since the primitive years, always been used to invent tools in order to solve problems. This would, in turn, simplify and make man’s life easier. Through advancements in the field, man has become more efficient on both the macro- and microscopic level. Anything nowadays can be attained with either the flip of a switch or a click of a mouse. One particular technology that came about in this time was the smartphone. Since 2008, the smartphone, a device that combines a normal cell phone with a computer, typically offering Internet access, data storage, e-mail capability, etc. all in your hand was deemed as ground-breaking technology and created one of the largest and most competitive market in terms of
Technologies are getting more and more advanced day by day, as if we would never know what technologies will become by the next day morning, it grow fast and it keeps on changing. We could not deny that today’s technology changes our world and our way of living, most of the new devices that are invented are replacing the old ones, just as those phones with a physical keypad design are replaced with our new touch screen smart phone today, these changes occur rapidly. In this technology leading world, have you ever wondered, what are the next incredible devices will be invent? In this research report, I am going to introduce you, a brand new technology that were recently invented by Google, a device which is yet