I first saw this video on Long Zheng’s blog a few days ago. Microsoft Research show how pen & touch can combine to be more than touch alone. While touch gestures like pinch, tap & drag can be good for changing view, tapping links or moving objects it’s far from what is needed for natural interaction. This hints at what a combination of the active digitiser stylus and touch can achieve. Lets hope we see it outside the lab and (hello Autodesk?) in our design applications....
Microsoft Research’s “Manual Deskterity” explores the synergy of pen & touch – istartedsomething
Then today Tablet PC Blog added a good discussion of how touch and active digitiser displays compliment each other:
Want to see the Future of Touch Input? | blog.tabletpc.com.au
“Whilst the Tablet PC active digitizer pen is the trusted workhorse of many serious business Tablet PC users, the push towards touch screens has been somewhat puzzling to us…”
