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Using multi-touch

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Using multi-touch

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- Gestural multi touch has matured becoming the defacto input technique we use in conjunction with mobile phones and tablets to the degree that most users are now comfortable with this form of input. Multi touch works great in conjunction with applications designed specifically to work with it. But what happens when you introduce it into an application originally designed to work with a mouse, and a keyboard, and possibly a pressure sensitive Stylus? Let's think about this for a minute. You've got two hands, so you can work with a Stylus in one hand and a mouse in the other, but what if you need to type? Now you're using both hands for keyboard activity. If the surface you are drawing on with a Stylus also happens to be the same surface with multi touch input, you'll need to surrender the drawing area for multi touch as needed. And how is multi touch supposed to interpret your palm when you rest it on the tablet as you draw? Depending on the operating system, the application software,…

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