Multitouch
Multi-touch (or multitouch, multi-tactile in French) is at the same time a technique of interaction human-computer and the material which applies it.
Multi-touch is composed of a touchscreen (touchscreen) or a touchpad (touch tablet) which recognize contact points simultaneous and multiple as of a software which interprets these simultaneous contacts.
This in general includes the position and the pressure stage of each contact point independently, which makes it possible to carry out gestures and to interact with several fingers or the hands, and to create a rich interaction by intuitive gestures.
According to their size, some multi-touch (multitouch) support simultaneously more than one user on the same device.
A covering aspect of this technique is that it facilitates the zoom on a user interface with two fingers for example, allowing of this fact of the operations more direct than a device single point like a mouse or a stylet.
Multi-touch has existed for more than 25 years, and its beginnings were done in 1982 at the university of Toronto (tablets multi-touch) and at the laboratories of Beautiful (screens multitouch).
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