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Select Multi-touch Software: How to set the scene for user experience?
The multi-touch software – in other words, to what users see, touch, and experience on the “table-top”. After all, what good is the best and most innovative of interactive tables if in the end all it shows is the good old PowerPoint presentation or a selection of PDFs to click through. Exactly – tha…
Multi-touch Table – Choose the best Supplier
The multi-touch market is, to say the least, complex and can seem confusing. You’ll find suppliers who offer off-the-shelf products (for a slightly lower price), but you’ll also come across those who offer full customisation. Overall, the market is divided into three different types of service provi…
Multi-touch Table – Set a Budget
Create a business case! Sure, you can always first ask how much “one of them multi-touch tables” costs and postpone the decision on the available budget. You wouldn’t be the only one. Nevertheless, in the context of a larger project, contrasting your requirements and objectives with the available bu…
Multi-touch Table – Internal Organization
Who should you inform and who can support you? There’s no need to overly complicate things; according to experience, however, you have to (and will) contact the following departments of your business during the course of the project: Marketing (e. g. to agree on/determine the table’s concept and con…
Multi-touch Table – Define Aims and Objectives
Just for the fun of it, go and separately ask three of your colleagues what use and benefit for your business they expect and require from a multi-touch table. Most likely you’ll get three very different answers, ranging from “look stylish and modern” over “generate leads automatically” to “impress…
Emotion and Usability: Interactive Products and the “Joy of Use”
Interactive installations such as multi-touch tables should inspire and captivate their users. They should function as eye-catchers and fair magnets and make a lasting impression on the visitors. But how do you manage to “breathe life into” an interactive product and still offer the users fun intera…
Market volume of $1.5 billion for interactive tables expected by 2027
The global market for interactive tables is expected to reach $1.5 billion by 2027, growing at a CAGR of 7.2% over the forecast period, according to a study by Grand View Research. The increasing use of multi-touch technology in the education sector is expected to be a strong driver for the market….
Green Week 2019 – BMZ booth
As in previous years, there were a number of interactive stations at the BMZ booth. These included a multi-touch scanner table, which informed visitors about fair coffee cultivation and trade, and a new “scanner installation”. “ONE WORLD without hunger is possible – with fair purchasing and fair pro…
Multitouch gestures with Lean Touch for Unity
Garamantis’ multi-touch developers have extended the Unity Lean Touch with important touch gestures and developed context-based touch recognition. The intelligent touch recognition processes the currently displayed content on which the gestures are performed and then implements the action that the u…
New multitouch table recognises objects and people
The Berlin-based company Garamantis has developed the first multitouch table that can recognise people: The device detects the exact location of visitors in the immediate vicinity and displays targeted messages and information to them. In addition, the device can identify objects such as products, f…
7 possible applications of multi-touch installations
Multi-touch technologies provide an interactive interface to the future. Through their touch-sensitive surface, devices equipped with this technology can recognise and process multiple touch inputs in parallel. The advantage of this technology is that it facilitates intuitive accessibility, interact…
FDP Federal Party Conference “Innovation Nation
The multi-touch scanner table from Garamantis brought the digital party programme and special focus on innovation to life for the guests. They were invited to handwrite their personal innovation idea for Germany on a card. This was then digitised at the table and sent via Twitter. On 12 and 13 May 2…