Touch Screen: A Report On
Touch Screen: A Report On
Touch Screen: A Report On
TOUCH SCREEN
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Acknowledgement
We would like to thank all the people who have helped us in this endeavour of
ours. We want to thank especially our professor Mr.Shivaji Methe for his constant
encouragement and unrelenting support and motivation.
We are also thankful that we have been provided with this opportunity to prepare
this report .We have gained knowledge about the subject and also about how to
prepare a report. This experience has enriched us thoroughly.
We also would like to thank our colleagues for their support and constant help
and motivation whenever required.
And lastly we want to celebrate the team spirit and dedication of our team
members.
Table Of Contents
1. Acknowledgement I
2. Abstract II
3. Introduction 1
4. Working 2
5. Different types of 4
Touchscreen
6. Uses of Touchscreen 6
7. Frequently asked
Questions
8. Applications
Cell phone
8.3 Iphone
8.4 Pda
9. Disadvantages
Introduction
A touchscreen is a display which can detect the presence and location of a touch
within the display area. The term generally refers to touch or contact to the
display of the device by a finger or hand. Touchscreens can also sense other
passive objects, such as a stylus. However, if the object sensed is active, as with a
light pen, the term touchscreen is generally not applicable. The thumb rule is: if
you can interact with the display using your finger, it is likely a touchscreen -
even if you are using a stylus or some other object.
Up until recently, most touchscreens could only sense one point of contact at a
time, and few have had the capability to sense how hard one is touching. This is
starting to change with the emergence of multi-touch technology - a technology
that was first seen in the early 1980s, but which is now appearing in commercially
available systems.
The touchscreen has two main attributes. First, it enables you to interact with
what is displayed directly on the screen, where it is displayed, rather than
indirectly with a mouse or touchpad. Secondly, it lets one do so without requiring
any intermediate device, again, such as a stylus that needs to be held in the hand.
Such displays can be attached to computers or, as terminals, to networks. They
also play a prominent role in the design of digital appliances such as the personal
digital assistant(PDA), satellite navigation devices and mobile phone.
How Does a Touchscreen Work?
A basic touchscreen has three main components: a touch sensor, a controller, and
a software driver. The touchscreen is an input device, so it needs to be combined
with a display and a PC or other device to make a complete touch input system.
1. Touch Sensor:
A touch screen sensor is a clear glass panel with a touch responsive surface. The
touch sensor/panel is placed over a display screen so that the responsive area of
the panel covers the viewable area of the video screen. There are several different
touch sensor technologies on the market today, each using a different method to
detect touch input. The sensor generally has an electrical current or signal going
through it and touching the screen causes a voltage or signal change. This voltage
change is used to determine the location of the touch to the screen.
2. Controller:
The controller is a small PC card that connects between the touch sensor and the
PC. It takes information from the touch sensor and translates it into information
that PC can understand. The controller is usually installed inside the monitor for
integrated monitors or it is housed in a plastic case for external touch add-
ons/overlays. The controller determines what type of interface/connection you
will need on the PC. Integrated touch monitors will have an extra cable
connection on the back for the touchscreen. Controllers are available that can
connect to a Serial/COM port (PC) or to a USB port (PC or Macintosh).
Specialized controllers are also available that work with DVD players and other
devices.
3. Software Driver:
The driver is a software update for the PC system that allows the touchscreen and
computer to work together. It tells the computer's operating system how to
interpret the touch event information that is sent from the controller. Most touch
screen drivers today are a mouse-emulation type driver. This makes touching the
screen the same as clicking your mouse at the same location on the screen. This
allows the touchscreen to work with existing software and allows new
applications to be developed without the need for touchscreen specific
programming. Some equipment such as thin client terminals, DVD players, and
specialized computer systems either do not use software drivers or they have their
own built-in touch screen driver.
4-Wire Resistive
5-Wire Resistive
Capacitive
PenTouch Capacitive
Surface Acoustic Wave
Near Field Imaging
Infrared
Strain gauge
Optical imaging
Dispersive signal technology
Frustrated total internal reflection
4-Wire Resistive
4-Wire Resistive touchscreen technology is used in the touch add-ons for PC
monitors and notebooks. It is a reliable and affordable technology that is widely
used by individuals and in less demanding workplace applications. It is pressure
sensitive so it responds to any input device, including finger, gloved hand, or pen
stylus.
Infrared Touchscreens
Infrared touchscreen technology is with the Plasma display solutions. This is the
only type of touch technology that we have available for large displays such as
42-inch Plasma screens. It is a durable technology that offers high image clarity.
Responds to any input device or stylus. IR touchscreens have the most durable
surfaces and are used in many military applications that require a touch panel
display.
Strain gauge
In a strain gauge configuration the screen is spring-mounted on the four corners
and strain gauges are used to determine deflection when the screen is touched.[4]
This technology can also measure the Z-axis. Typically used in exposed public
systems such as ticket machines due to their resistance to vandalism.
Optical imaging
A relatively-modern development in touchscreen technology, two or more image
sensors are placed around the edges (mostly the corners) of the screen. Infrared
backlights are placed in the camera's field of view on the other sides of the screen.
A touch shows up as a shadow and each pair of cameras can then be triangulated
to locate the touch. This technology is growing in popularity, due to its scalability,
versatility, and affordability, especially for larger units.
The touch screen is one of the easiest PC interfaces to use, making it the
interface of choice for a wide variety of applications. Here are a few examples of
how touch input systems are being used today:
Assistive Technology
The touch screen interface can be beneficial to those that have difficulty using
other input devices such as a mouse or keyboard. When used in conjunction with
software such as on-screen keyboards, or other assistive technology, they can help
make computing resources more available to people that have difficulty using
computers.
Does one have to use finger or can one use another pointing device with a
touchscreen?
This depends on the type of touch screen. Resistive touchscreens are pressure
sensitive and will work with any type of input- finger, gloved hand, stylus, pen, or
any pointing device. Capacitive screens on the other hand will only work with
finger input. PenTouch is a special type of Capacitive screen that comes with an
attached pen stylus. SAW (surface acoustic wave) touchscreens will work with
finger input or soft-tipped stylus input. With SAW technology, a hard tipped pen
will not create a touch response, but a soft-tip stylus will work.
Can the touchscreen respond to two touches / two fingers at the same time?
No, the touchscreen can only respond to one input at a time. Some touchscreens
will average together multiple touches, causing the mouse cursor move to a
position between the points touched. Some touchscreen will accept the first touch
and then ignore simultaneous touches.
Is there a software program that will turn non-touch monitor into a touchscreen?
A normal computer monitor does not have the necessary hardware to be able to
detect touches to the screen, so there is no way to make it a touch responsive
display through software. The only way to convert a standard PC monitor into a
touch screen monitor is to add the necessary touch screen hardware
Applications
According to their new design the whole surface of the cell phone represents a
touch sensitive display. Moreover this detectable concept would be able to satisfy
both environmentalists and high-tech lovers. It's made of just 4 layers: a printed
circuit board, extruded polycarbonate, recycled titanium, and a wrap around
flexible haptic LED touch screen. Due to the small amount of used materials the
design of the gadget is highly sustainable. The wrap around screen allows endless
user interface possibilities, so you can watch/take movies or pictures and write
SMS at the same time. But that's not the half of it. In addition to that given device
is just 7mm thick, it has 3 megapixel camera and can be recharged just in 2
minutes. Unfortunately, there is no information about its price but even now we
understand that it will probably be quite a high one.
Taking into consideration the fact that the characteristics of the gadget are very
impressive, most likely it will become very successful and famous product.
Touchscreen beyond cell phone:
The touch-screen craze is spreading beyond cell phones as well.
Microsoft Corp. Chairman Bill Gates has said touch sensors and speech
recognition are a focus of the company's development efforts. Hewlett-Packard
Co. introduced a desktop PC with touch screen last year and updated the line this
year. Touch screens have become standard for GPS devices, a fast-selling
category. Colegrove expects e-book readers to start coming with touch screens
too.
Touch screens are the ideal solution, Hsu said, for maximizing screen size while
keeping gadgets small. They also make for easy-to-use devices, because each
application can present its own specific controls, rather than relying on hardware
buttons shared with other applications.
For starters, the system unit is now integrated into the 22in panel display rather
than parked on the desk, yet the screen remains impossibly thin. Some of the
credit goes to HP’s decision to swap out the first-gen AMD X2 chips for Intel’s
more energy-efficient Intel Core 2 Duo processors; other design choices include a
slot-loading optical drive rather than a conventional tray drive.
One feature is the lighting strip that runs along at the bottom of the display to
illuminate the wireless keyboard – an ambient light sensor adjusts the brightness
so you can dim the lights to watch a video yet still know where the keys are to
pause, skip ahead or back (that's assuming you don't just want to kick back and
use the supplied remote controller).
The base spec starts at a 2GHz Core 2 Duo with integrated graphics, 4GB of
RAM and a 320GB hard drive. Digging a little deeper into your wallet scores you
a peppier processor backed by a GeForce 9300M GS video card, a 500GB hard
disk and a digital TV tuner or turning the TouchSmart into a natty PVR.
Crossfire
It's the IQ770 "Crossfire," the first mass market touchscreen desktop PC. The
Vista Premium system features a massive load of options including: 19-inch
touchscreen, AMD Turion 64 X2 dual core TL-52 processor, 2GB SDRAM,
320GB drive, NVIDIA GeForce Go 7600, WiFi, Bluetooth, integrated 1.3
megapixel camera, integrated FM and ATSC HDTV tuners, a DVD±RW / DVD-
RAM burner with LightScribe, Pocket Media Drive bay, wireless keyboard,
mouse, stylus, front media reader, and a crazy amount of ports (Ethernet, two
FireWire, six USB 2.0, one with HP printer power Y-cable connector, 5.1 +
digital audio out, IR out, mini-VGA, and inputs: FM coax, TV coax, ATSC, and
two S-Video). It also features some new widget-like dashboard interface.
Iphone
Currently, a typical PDA has a touch screen for entering data, a memory card slot
for data storage and at least one of the following for connectivity: IrDA,
Bluetooth and/or WiFi. However, many PDAs (typically those used primarily as
telephones) may not have a touch screen, using softkeys, a directional pad and
either the numeric keypad or a thumb keyboard for input.
Many original PDAs, such as the Apple Newton and Palm Pilot, featured touch
screens for user interaction, having only a few buttons usually reserved for
shortcuts to often used programs. Touch screen PDAs, including Windows Pocket
PC devices, usually have a detachable stylus that can be used on the touch screen.
Interaction is then done by tapping the screen to activate buttons or menu choices,
and dragging the stylus to, for example, highlight. Text input is usually done in
one of four ways:
PDAs for business use, including the BlackBerry and Treo, have full keyboards
and scroll wheels or thumb wheels to facilitate data entry and navigation, in
addition to supporting touch-screen input. There are also full-size foldable
keyboards available that plug directly, or use wireless technology to interface with
the PDA and allow for normal typing. BlackBerry has additional functionality,
such as push-based email and applications.
Newer PDAs, such as the Apple iPhone and iPod touch include new user
interfaces using other means of input. The iPhone and iPod touch uses a
technology called Multi-touch.
Disadvantages Of TouchScreen
Finger stress
Fingernail as stylus
The fingernail's hard, curved surface contacts the touchscreen at a single very
small point. Therefore, much less finger pressure is needed, much greater
precision is possible (approaching that of a stylus, with a little experience), much
less skin oil is smeared onto the screen, and the fingernail can be silently moved
across the screen with very little resistance, allowing for selecting text, moving
windows, or drawing lines.
The human fingernail consists of keratin which has a hardness and smoothness
similar to the tip of a stylus (and so will not typically scratch a touchscreen).
Alternately, very short stylus tips are available, which slip right onto the end of a
finger; this increases visibility of the contact point with the screen. Oddly, with
capacitive touchscreens, the reverse problem applies in that individuals with long
nails have reported problems getting adequate skin contact with the screen to
register keystrokes (note that ordinary styli do not work on capacitive
touchscreens nor do gloved fingers).
Touch screens also suffer from the problem of fingerprints on the display. This
can be mitigated by the use of materials with optical coatings designed to reduced
the visible effects of fingerprint oils.
"Gorilla arm"
Designers of touch-menu systems failed to notice that humans are not designed to
hold their arms in front of their faces making small motions. After more than a
very few selections, the arm begins to feel sore, cramped, and oversized -- the
operator looks like a gorilla while using the touch screen and feels like one
afterwards. This is now considered a classic cautionary tale to human-factors
designers; "Remember the gorilla arm!" is shorthand for "How is this going to fly
in real use?".
Gorilla arm is not a problem for specialist short-term-use devices such as ATMs,
since they only involve brief interactions which are not long enough to cause
gorilla arm.
Gorilla arm also can be mitigated by the use of horizontally-mounted screens such
as those used in Tablet PCs, but these then have the problem that the user's need
to rest their hands on the device increases the amount of dirt deposited on the
screen, and occludes the user's view of the screen.
No Tactile Feedback - There's just something to be said about hitting a physical
button. It's a lot easier dialing on a conventional numeric keypad than it is on a
virtual keypad. Some handsets have tried to rectify this with haptic feedback, but
it's just not the same.
Have to Look to Touch - Yes, you probably shouldn't be dialing and text
messaging while driving, but it's inevitable that people still want to do this. When
you have a phone with a regular keypad, it's possible to "feel" where the buttons
are and to press them without looking. With a touchscreen phone, this is virtually
impossible and can drastically increase the possibility of a bad motor vehicle
accident.
Sensitivity and Response - When you press a button a regular phone, you know
you pressed it. There's no calibration, no mistakes. When you press a virtual
button on a touchscreen phone, it's not nearly as perfect. Again, haptic feedback
can aid in this department, but it's not on par just yet. That's because most devices
make use of the cheaper resistive touchscreens and the iPhone has the more
expensive capacitive touchscreen.
Thus we can see that touchscreens have revolutionized our devices and our
technology.It has not only(……write a proper conclusion….