Interactive touch screen displays and tables; links to Interactive Multimedia Technology and Tech Psych blogs

Human-World Interaction, Multimedia, and Emerging Technologies

My HASTAC blog serves as a portal to three regularly-maintained blogs, where I share information, resources, and links that fall roughly into the following categories: Technology-Supported Human-World Interaction

Interactive Multimedia Technology

TechPsych

I have some information about touch-screen displays and tables on my Interactive Mutlimedia Technology and Tech Psych blogs.

Last semester, I spent some time working with applications for touch interfaces to support the collaboration between two or more people. I wanted to get my hands on a touch-table, but found that most tables were not yet available to the public.

One system, the Touch Table, had most of the features that I wanted, but the price at the time was $59,000.00!

Fortunately, less expensive screens are on the horizon. One of Microsoft's newest releases, Surface, is a touch-screen table that looks like it has many possibilities for the future. I understand that it will be released by November, 2007, and will cost between $5,000.00 to $10,000.00. This is still a bit expensive.

I would also like to see touch-applications embedded on adjustable surfaces, so that users can position them according to need, somewhat like an adjustable drafting table. They'd be great in classrooms.

What do you think?

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