Touch

Mobile Surface is a novel interaction system for mobile computing. Our goal is to bring the Microsoft Surface experience to mobile scenarios and, more importantly, to enable 3-D interaction with mobile devices. We will demonstrate how to transform any surface, such as a coffee table or a piece of…

Windows 7 Touch allows developers to create new experiences that go beyond simple mouse pointing, clicking, and dragging. The new multi touch APIs support rich gestures, such as pan, zoom, and rotate. The Windows 7 Multi touch Platform also provides raw touch data inputs and advanced manipulation…

A common need for Windows 7 touch user interfaces is to react to a touch gesture.  In this screencast, Marc demonstrates a very simple and easy way to interpret single touch gestures using MouseGestureTrigger from the Expression Blend Samples. To learn more about Behaviors, Triggers, and…

General Mills and Microsoft have worked together to make the Betty Crocker Kitchen Assistant, a new digital, voice-activated tool featuring high-resolution recipe images and step-by-step cooking instructions, available on Windows PCs and featuring a touch screen interface for Windows 7. The…

Larry Gregory talked to Carlos Reinoso or http://www.xe-xi.com at a recent BizSpark incubation event hosted by Sanjay Jain.http://www.xe-xi.com uses location based services to deliver the ability to find businesses around you as you travel with a mobile device or even from your desktop.…

Larry Gregory talked to the team of Adrian Manzano and Rene Nario of http://www.freeltor.com at a recent Bizspark incubation event hosted by Sanjay Jain.Their solution reduces the administration overhead of running a business for the real estate agent and frees…

Larry Gregory talked to the team of Kevin Mann and Tony Williams of http://www.takepublishing.com at a recent Bizspark incubation event hosted by Sanjay Jain.Their solution called TakeComics finally solves the problem of trying to find that missing issue of your favorite comic as well as…

Jim O'Neil concludes his three part series on Windows 7 for Developers with an overview of the new APIs that allows applications to take advantage of cool new features like libraries, jump lists and thumbnails on the taskbar, multi-touch, sensors, the Windows Ribbon, and native…

Joe Fletcher works in the Surface team, and is focused on identifying design approaches which best utilize touch-based interfaces for both Surface as well as Windows 7. In this episode we will discuss with Joe some of the concepts that he will be expanding upon in his upcoming session at MIX09.…

QSI Corporation has come up with a way to make almost any surface a touch sensitive interface, reports Technabob. This can include surfaces like wood, rock, and glass. The technology, called InfiniTouch, can also calculate the force on the Z-axis so the intensity of the touch is determined. The…