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Overview

Introduction
History
Components
Technologies
Pros & cons
Applications
Conclusion

Introduction

A touch screen is a display

that can detect the presence
and location of a touch within
the display area.
Touch screen can also sense
other passive objects such
as stylus.

History

Touch screens emerged from academic and corporate

research labs
In 1971, the first "Touch Sensor" was developed by
Doctor Sam Hurst (founder of Elographics) while he was
an instructor at the University of Kentucky.

Contd

This sensor, called the Elograph.

Touch screens first gained some visibility with
the invention of the computer-assisted learning
terminal, which came out in 1975 as part of the
PLATO project.

Components

A basic touch screen has three main

components :

Touch sensor
Controller
Software driver

Touch sensor

A touch screen sensor is a

clear glass panel with a
touch responsive area.
The touch sensor is placed
over a display screen so
that the responsive area of
the panel covers the
viewable area of the screen.

Controller

The controller connects between the touch sensor and

the PC.
Take information from the touch sensor and translate it
into information that PC can understand.

Software Driver

The driver allow the touch screen and computer to work

together
This makes touching the screen as same as clicking the
your mouse at the same location on the screen.

Technologies

Resistive
Surface acoustic wave
Capacitive
Infrared
Optical Imaging

Resistive

composed of several layers

Two Electrically conductive layers

Surface acoustic wave

uses ultrasonic waves

Surface wave touch screen panels can be damaged by
outside elements.
When the panel is touched, a portion of the wave is
absorbed.

Open FrameSAW Touch

Monitor

Capacitive

Consist of an insulator such as glass

Coated with transparent conductor such as ITO
(Indium Tin Oxide)
touching the surface of the screen results in a
distortion of the screen's electrostatic field,
measurable as a change in capacitance.

Infrared

An infrared touch
screen uses an array of
X-Y infrared LED
and photo
detector pairs around
the edges of the screen
to detect a disruption in
the pattern of LED
beams.

Optical imaging

In this two or more image

sensors are placed around the
edges of the screen. A touch
shows up as a shadow and each
pair of cameras can then be
pinpointed to locate the touch.

Comparison

PROS

User friendly
Fast response
Error free input
Use finger , fingernail , gloved hands ,
stylus or any soft tip pointer
Easy to clean
Does not interfere mouse and
keyboard
Make computing easy , powerful and
fun
It benefits children

CONS

Finger stress
Fingerprints
screen has to be really big not to miss things when
pressing them with your finger
big screen leads to low battery life
touch screen means screen cant be read too well in
direct sunlight as it applies an additional not 100%
transparent
Fatigue

Applications
Museums
Library resource guides
Corporate information
Airport terminal passenger internet and
emails
ATMs
Restaurants'
Grocery stores

Conclusion

Designers are trying to use touch screen to simplify input

commands
Today , touch screen has becomes adopted by
computers users of all abilities because it is simple, fast
and innovative.
In future there is no usage of mouse and keyboards as
they will be replaced by touch screen.