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Aucbvax.4014 fa.works utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!network Thu Sep 24 18:50:19 1981 WorkS Digest V1 #18 >From DUFFEY@MIT-AI Thu Sep 24 18:30:54 1981

WorkS Digest Thu, 24 Sep 1981 Volume 1 : Issue 18

Today's Topics: Input Devices - Touchpanels ----------------------------------------------------------------------

Date: 22 September 1981 19:40 edt From: SSteinberg.SoftArts at MIT-Multics Sender: COMSAT.SoftArts at MIT-Multics Subject: TSD's

Xerox uses them to implement a mouse on a workstation. ArqMaq put them on the arms of a chair and did gesture recognition so they could control sound volume (circular motion), page viewing (diagonal lines for forward and back), and so on. Gesture recognition doesn't need hi-res.

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