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Assignment 1: Multi-Touch Screens vs. Mouse-Driven Screens
Week 3
Assignment 1: Multi-Touch Screens vs. Mouse-Driven Screens
Professor Reginald Haseltine
CIS 375017VA016-1204-001
Human-Computer Interaction
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Assignment 1: Multi-Touch Screens vs. Mouse-Driven Screens
Multi-Touch Screens vs. Mouse-Driven Screens
Through the years, desktop computing encounters have revolved around a mouse and
keyboard as people’s main input devices. However, the advanced transformations of touchscreen
driven input devices have altered this technology, in a way that past input devices such as
keyboard and mouse are now not basic. These days, touch screen technology is broadly utilized
in devices such as laptops, smartphones, tablets, kiosks, and ATMs. Multi-touch technology
offers a broad variety of modern opportunities for communication with a graphical user interface,
letting expressive gestural control and fluid multi-user collaboration through relatively basic and
reasonable hardware and software configurations. Multi-touch involves using one or more
fingers on a screen without moving a mouse or pressing buttons.
