The document discusses touch screens, including their history, types, functions, advantages, and disadvantages. It outlines the group's project workflow on researching touch screens, including brainstorming, online research, an online survey, and data analysis. The group will create different media like a website to present their findings. They will divide tasks, with one member focusing on the website, another on survey results, and the third on collecting more information.

1. Innovation
shaping our
life—
Touch-screen
LIK Man Chiu (David) 12211400
AU Him Shun (AU) 12211680
WANG Ruoyu (Tony) 12250716

2. Power point Workflow
Job division
Project
Project among
topic and Content
work flow group
objectives
members

3. Project topic: Touch-screen
 an electronic visual display
that can detect the presence and
location of a touch within the display area

4. Objectives
To find out:
 History
 Basic Information
 Functions
 Usage
 Advantages
 Disadvantages
 Suggestions for improvement
of touch-screens

5. Project work flow
• Brain-storm the ideas about touch-screen
• Goggle about this innovation to search for basic
10 Sept-16
Sept information
• Make a mind map in mind meister to present the data
17 Sept-23 collected
Sept
• Set up questions for the online survey
1 October-
7 October

6. Project work flow
• Collect the data of the online survey
15 October- • Analysis the data collected in Edit Grid
21 October
• Prepare the presentation and make
22 October-
28October
the power point about the project
29 October- • Class Presentation
4 November

7. Project work flow
• Create different media documents about the topic
7 November-
13 November
16 November-
• Start creating the web-site
21 November
• Double check the final results
24 November- • About to hand-in the link
29 November

8. Content
(Interesting facts about touch screen)
 First idea about touch-screen came up in
1965
 Three major type of touch-screens are
resistive style, surface acoustic wave style
and capacitive style
 It is not only applied in smartphones, PDAs
or computers, but also NDS, some ATM
machines or even casher in shops

9. Advantages of touch-screen
Advantages of touch-screen
 Intuitive
 Direct manipulation is easy to use
 Fast to point out the signal
 Facilitate hand -eye coordination
 Can be mounted on many things
( e.g. table .walls. black boar)
(Presented in mind map)

10.  difficult to select small items
Disadvantage of of touch-
Disadvantages touch-
screen
screen
 User's hand may obscure the screen
 Easily to be broken by harsh item
(Presented in mind map)

11. Our Survey result (selected Questions)
To what extend that you think touch-screen is convient?
0% 0%
Definatlt
23%
31%
Correct
Convient
Fair
46% Not
Convient

12. What function you found the touch-screen most useful?
12%
Quick respond to
your finger's
command
44% Easily enlarge or
reduce size of
document
44%
High-Defination
screen displat

13. Why don't you use touch screen?
14%
Do not want to
change a mobile
29%
at this moment
Too expensive to
14%
buy
Think that touch
screen do not
really useful
43%
Other

14. Will you continute to use touch-screen in near future?
26%
Yes
74%
No

15. Future of touch-screens
 Multi-point touch screen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al
WFtF06RFo

16. Job division among group members
 Tony: To create different media to
present indicate the data
 David:
To built up the major part of the link
apple web site
 AU:
To collect more information from the
web internet and from the survey

17. References
 Website : How do touchscreen monitors know where you're touching?
( http://computer.howstuffworks.com/question716.htm )
What is touch screen? - Definition from WhatIs.com
(http://searchcio-midmarket.techtarget.com/definition/touch-screen )
 Video: Reality touchscreen University of Groningen
( Produced by :Donald Smits Center for Information Techlonogy , University of Groningen )
 Recommended Extension Reading :
 "Touch screens now offer compelling uses".
IEEE Software 8 (2): 93–94, 107. 1991.
doi:10.1109/52.73754

18.  Thanks for watching