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In computing, multi-touch is technology that enables a surface (a touchpad or touchscreen) to recognize the presence of more than one point of contact with the surface at the same time. The origins of multitouch began at CERN, MIT, University of Toronto, Carnegie Mellon University and Bell Labs in the 1970s. CERN started using multi-touch screens as…
The analysis highlights History, Culture, Applications and Art as prominent areas in the source structure around Multi-touch.
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The extracted context around Multi-touch shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Multi-touch → An, Annotated, Bill Buxton, Capacitive Touch Sensing, DeForce-Sensing, Dispersive Signal Technology Works, Geoff Walker, Geoff Walker Archived, Have Known, History, How, Introduction, Loved, Mark Fihn Archived, Microsoft Research, Multi-Touch Systems, Notes, NYUCamera-based, Pen Computing, Pen-based Computing Another extracted example is Multi-touch → Alan Hedge, Apple, Between, Cornell University, DiamondTouch, Fingerworks, In, May, MERL, Microsoft PixelSense, Microsoft's, Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Pad, Similarly, Surface, Touchstream. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.
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TTTA extracted 113 structured relationships around Multi-touch. Examples in this analysis include pinch-to-zoom → instance of → the video-based Video Place/Video Desk system of Myron Krueger was influential in development of multi-touch gestures and rotating knobs → instance of → describing single touch gestures. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.
| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| pinch-to-zoom | instance of | the video-based Video Place/Video Desk system of Myron Krueger was influential in development of multi-touch gestures | 0.80 | text |
| though this system had no touch interaction itself.By 1984 | instance of | the video-based Video Place/Video Desk system of Myron Krueger was influential in development of multi-touch gestures | 0.80 | text |
| both Bell Labs | instance of | the video-based Video Place/Video Desk system of Myron Krueger was influential in development of multi-touch gestures | 0.80 | text |
| Carnegie Mellon University had working multi-touch-screen prototypes | instance of | the video-based Video Place/Video Desk system of Myron Krueger was influential in development of multi-touch gestures | 0.80 | text |
| rotating knobs | instance of | describing single touch gestures | 0.80 | text |
| swiping the screen to activate a switch | instance of | describing single touch gestures | 0.80 | text |
| Multi-touch | has application | Apple | 0.60 | section |
| Multi-touch | has application | Additionally | 0.60 | section |
| Multi-touch | has application | United States | 0.60 | section |
| Multi-touch | has application | United States Patent | 0.60 | section |
| Multi-touch | has application | Trademark Office | 0.60 | section |
| Multi-touch | has application | ASIC | 0.60 | section |
The concept neighborhoods around Multi-touch bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Technology, Apple and Gestures. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.
For Multi-touch, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Multi-touch with History. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.
TTTA analyzes the structure around Multi-touch to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Culture, Applications & Art, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.
Source: Wikipedia — Multi-touch · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout