The first obvious application that comes to mind is anything where student scientists have to sift through something to find what they are looking for--leaf litter, detritus on a fossil dig or on the ocean floor. I'd think you'd want to get very quickly beyond that, though, to start to think about things that could be mentally sifted through using this kind of screen, everything from complex physical substances like petroleum to collections of data (each piece of which might have an appropriate form-factor) to mathematical problems that could benefit from a more physical approach (at least for some students), though this last idea could create the same kinds of issues that have kept calculators out of the classroom, unless the touch-screen environment was just being used to let students play around with the mathematical construct in order to gain some kind of deep understanding/confidence in it, but traditional methods would still be required to solve problems of the type in question.
Aside from the obvious barrier for some handicapped users, multi-touch technology is JUST an interface. A fascinating one, to be sure, but still just a tool to get to what you want to see. The value will materialize when appropriate visual databases are developed to allow viewsers to see through multiple layers of content and displays -- contrasting them with other sources, including real-time video (e.g. for teleconferencing, distance learning, teaming. And -- sorry "Perceptive Pixel,...a leader" -- there are some impressive, well-financed competitors in this space, including APPL and MSFT... and CISC is also probably cooking up something icw/ its TelePresence products.
The first obvious application that comes to mind is anything where student scientists have to sift through something to find what they are looking for--leaf litter, detritus on a fossil dig or on the ocean floor. I'd think you'd want to get very quickly beyond that, though, to start to think about things that could be mentally sifted through using this kind of screen, everything from complex physical substances like petroleum to collections of data (each piece of which might have an appropriate form-factor) to mathematical problems that could benefit from a more physical approach (at least for some students), though this last idea could create the same kinds of issues that have kept calculators out of the classroom, unless the touch-screen environment was just being used to let students play around with the mathematical construct in order to gain some kind of deep understanding/confidence in it, but traditional methods would still be required to solve problems of the type in question.
Score: 50Aside from the obvious barrier for some handicapped users, multi-touch technology is JUST an interface. A fascinating one, to be sure, but still just a tool to get to what you want to see. The value will materialize when appropriate visual databases are developed to allow viewsers to see through multiple layers of content and displays -- contrasting them with other sources, including real-time video (e.g. for teleconferencing, distance learning, teaming. And -- sorry "Perceptive Pixel,...a leader" -- there are some impressive, well-financed competitors in this space, including APPL and MSFT... and CISC is also probably cooking up something icw/ its TelePresence products.
Score: 50