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<p>Multi-touch tabletop displays provide a co-located collaborative workspace for multiple users around a physical table. They sit together and perform collaborative interaction to select and manipulate digital contents using their bare fingers. However, these systems bring a new paradigm shift in user interaction and present various challenges to design natural user interfaces respectively. The growing popularity of tabletop displays and their related issues have gained a greater attention among researchers in academia and industry. It creates a need to present an overview of multi-touch tabletop displays. This review paper attempts to present the touch enabling technologies that support in the construction of multi-touch tabletop displays. It also presents the important applications of multi-touch tabletop displays in different domains and their challenging issues in different perspectives. Finally, this paper proposes the future work.</p></abstract>

Multi-touch tabletop displays provide a co-located collaborative workspace for multiple users around a physical table. They sit together and perform collaborative interaction to select and manipulate digital contents using their bare fingers. However, these systems bring a new paradigm shift in user interaction and present various challenges to design natural user interfaces respectively. The growing popularity of tabletop displays and their related issues have gained a greater attention among researchers in academia and industry. It creates a need to present an overview of multi-touch tabletop displays. This review paper attempts to present the touch enabling technologies that support in the construction of multi-touch tabletop displays. It also presents the important applications of multi-touch tabletop displays in different domains and their challenging issues in different perspectives. Finally, this paper proposes the future work.

Applications of Multi-Touch Tabletop Displays and Their Challenging Issues: An Overview

International Journal on Smart Sensing and Intelligent Systems

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Multi-touch tabletop displays provide a co-located collaborative workspace for multiple users around a physical table. They sit together and perform...

Applications of Multi-Touch Tabletop Displays and Their Challenging Issues: An Overview

Published Online: Jun 01, 2015

Page range: 966 - 991

Received: Feb 01, 2015

Accepted: Mar 30, 2015

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/ijssis-2017-791

© 2015 Ahsanullah et al., published by Sciendo

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