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]]> By: JP http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/2008/10/28/windows-7-multitouch-controls/comment-page-1/#comment-19695 JP Sat, 29 Nov 2008 06:41:42 +0000 http://www.pcpro.co.uk/blogs/?p=3900#comment-19695 If Oct 2008 internet rumours are correct, windows7 has yet to come up with a facility that can reasonably supplant the mouse for business users. To do so, Multitouch must manipulate text with 1) efficient gestures that replace commands presently requiring to click on menu and then submenu, 2) a graphic interface that enables the finger to be as accurate as a cursor, and more efficient than the mouse-based left/right click menus in manipulating text-based formatting. This should be possible given the countless gestures that multitouch could use to represent various commands. I refer the surfer to the extant company website http://www.fingerworks.com/gesture_guide_editing.html for a concrete examples. Surprisingly, I have yet to see any hint of a product that addresses this second point. Given the non-ergonomic requirements of a touchscreen upright monitor configuration, multitouch would also seem more practicable if the finger interface were a large touchpad rather than touchscreen. Many people dislike the inefficiency of the mouse-keyboard alternation paradigm and preferentially use hotkeys whenever available. Ultimately, if multitouch can make gestures that provide a more intuitive, accurate and physically efficient interface than the mouse or current touchpad paradigm, it has a reasonable chance of being favourably adopted by the business user. If Oct 2008 internet rumours are correct, windows7 has yet to come up with a facility that can reasonably supplant the mouse for business users. To do so, Multitouch must manipulate text with 1) efficient gestures that replace commands presently requiring to click on menu and then submenu, 2) a graphic interface that enables the finger to be as accurate as a cursor, and more efficient than the mouse-based left/right click menus in manipulating text-based formatting. This should be possible given the countless gestures that multitouch could use to represent various commands. I refer the surfer to the extant company website http://www.fingerworks.com/gesture_guide_editing.html for a concrete examples. Surprisingly, I have yet to see any hint of a product that addresses this second point.

Given the non-ergonomic requirements of a touchscreen upright monitor configuration, multitouch would also seem more practicable if the finger interface were a large touchpad rather than touchscreen.

Many people dislike the inefficiency of the mouse-keyboard alternation paradigm and preferentially use hotkeys whenever available. Ultimately, if multitouch can make gestures that provide a more intuitive, accurate and physically efficient interface than the mouse or current touchpad paradigm, it has a reasonable chance of being favourably adopted by the business user.

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