Exploring new patterns with multi-touch displays

Categorized in: multi touch, video

The guys over at 10gui.com are trying to rethink the way we interact with computers – the traditional 2D window-based desktop approach. Instead they propose a linear approach to managing windows that takes advantage of 10-finger multi-touch controls. Watch the fascinating video below.

“Rather than creating windows at often arbitrary positions on a 2-dimensional plane, con10uum organizes them linearly. New windows arrive from one side, occupy the full height of a screen, and are manipulable through a consistent vocabulary of multi-touch interaction.”

Published on 14 Feb, 2010

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Kids Cubby

19 Feb, 2010

This is pretty interesting video, I’m sure you’ll receive good number of traffic for this article. Thanks for posting!
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Don

2 Mar, 2010

Thanks for posting this. VERY cool. I love ui-patterns.com and I’m diggin’ your blog too. Thanks Anders.

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