MetaFilter posts tagged with touchscreen

I want you to want me

spigoat — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:07:56 -0800

I want you to want me is the latest project from Jon Harris and Sep Kamvar. It's an interactive touch-screen installation at MoMA, part of the current exhibit called Design and the Elastic Mind. The installation culls dating profiles from the Internet and visualizes trends and statistics. Each person is represented as a floating balloon. If you're in NYC, check the exhibit out before it closes on May 12. Otherwise, here's a video.

Touch Me Baby One More Time

Blazecock Pileon — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 19:08:49 -0800

Jeff Han, shows advances in his multitouch interfaces a year later. YT video 1. YT video 2.

But each time he hit the button next to the candidate, the Republican choice showed up.

amberglow — Mon, 30 Oct 2006 15:46:50 -0800

Her vote went smoothly, but boss Gary Rudolf called her over to look at what was happening on his machine. He touched the screen for gubernatorial candidate Jim Davis, a Democrat, but the review screen repeatedly registered the Republican, Charlie Crist. ...A poll worker then helped Rudolf, but it took three tries to get it right, Reed said. ... Broward Supervisor of Elections spokeswoman Mary Cooney said it's not uncommon for screens on heavily used machines to slip out of sync, making votes register incorrectly. ... Early voting problems already in Florida.

Touch Me Baby

dbiedny — Sat, 11 Feb 2006 18:58:16 -0800

This very cool multi-input touchscreen is an amazing example of potential human-computer interfaces and is not the same thing as the very cool Lemur device marketed in the US by Cycling 74. It really makes you realize that there's a whole new level of graphics, animation, 3D, music and control technology yet to be explored. Fascinating stuff.

Draw with your hands on your screen

KevinSkomsvold — Fri, 07 Oct 2005 23:54:03 -0800

Draw on your computer screen with your hands. A touch-screen art program of sorts. I don't own a Mac but this would make me rethink that. [Embedded QT alert]

Your vote counts, until the memory is full.

drezdn — Sun, 12 Dec 2004 15:23:21 -0800

Oops. Touch-screen errors led to loss of 4,400 ballots in North Carolina election.

Lies, Damn lies, and everything looks like a nail

allan — Tue, 07 Dec 2004 06:59:00 -0800

We conclude that the study is entirely without merit and its “results” are meaningless. Remember Florida and those electronic voting machines? Remember those plucky Berkeley grad students who proved something was wrong with the evoting counties? It turns out they were completely wrong.