I can see this work on something like MS Surface, but also on a
wall-mounted large multi-touch screen if we are talking the code review
or mentoring scenarios.
But I agree though touch interfaces are often overrated, in particular
the multi-touch variation. They have their place, but they are not all
that useful in most scenarios I can think of.
I just had a discussion last week about the idea of using multi-touch
for a 3D viewer component and I just don't see much advantage that the
pinch control has over an icon that you drag single-touched. In
particular since the availability of multi-touch gestures is not visible
-- as long as most of the audience will not expect to be able to use
these gestures they are useless unless you accept some (minor) training
effort.
Peter
On 16/03/10 01:30, Reinier Zwitserloot wrote:
With multitouch? Craptastic, of course.
Multitouch requires one of two things:
- the touch surface is NOT the display surface (e.g. it's a keyboard-
wide trackpad that's below the keyboard and uses absolute coordinates
instead of the relative coordinates that trackpads use, and somehow
knows the difference between you just resting your wrists and actually
using it)
- the screen is below you.
Go ahead. Try it. Point at stuff on your screen for 40 seconds. Notice
how tired your arms are? Now do that for 8 hours. It boggles the mind
that so many people are excited about, and so many companies investing
in, the notion that you touch a monitor that's in front of you.
On an iPad this would be fun, but you really run into the cramped
screen real estate problem. Presumable with the pinch-zoom gesture you
could 'zoom' into a bubble and zoom right out again very quickly, but
part of the charm would be lost (that charm being: That relevant info
is around the periphery even when you're typing).
On a gigantic all-touch-screen table this might be really interesting
though :)
On Mar 14, 7:00 pm, "[email protected]"<[email protected]>
wrote:
Hmmm...what would this be like with multi-touch? That might get
interesting.
I remember JG talking about visual bandwidth in IDEs. I think that
this may require an upgrade in my bandwidth. :)
LES
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