Here are the requested URLs related to Touchscreen from Wikipedia, along with their titles and short summaries:
- This Wikipedia page provides a comprehensive overview of touchscreen technology, including its history, types, and applications. It covers the development of touchscreens from the early days to their widespread use in various devices such as smartphones, tablets, and kiosks.
- The Simple English Wikipedia page on touchscreens offers a basic explanation of what touchscreens are and how they are used. It describes touchscreens as computer screens that can be operated by touching them with a finger or a stylus pen, eliminating the need for a mouse and keyboard.
- This Wikipedia article focuses specifically on resistive touchscreens, providing technical details about their composition, operation, and comparison with other touchscreen technologies. It is a valuable resource for understanding the engineering aspects of resistive touch-sensitive displays.
- The Wikipedia page on multi-touch technology delves into the concept of enabling touch-sensitive surfaces to recognize multiple points of contact simultaneously. It covers the history, applications, and patents related to multi-touch, making it a comprehensive source of information on this advanced touchscreen capability.
These Wikipedia pages offer a wealth of information on touchscreens, including their history, types, and technological aspects.
Citations:
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen
[2] https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Touchscreen
[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resistive_touchscreen
[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multi-touch
A touchscreen or touch screen is the assembly of both an input (touch panel) and output (display) device. The touch panel is normally layered on the top of an electronic visual display of an electronic device.
The display is often an LCD, AMOLED or OLED display.
A user can give input or control the information processing system through simple or multi-touch gestures by touching the screen with a special stylus or one or more fingers. Some touchscreens use ordinary or specially coated gloves to work, while others may only work using a special stylus or pen. The user can use the touchscreen to react to what is displayed and, if the software allows, to control how it is displayed; for example, zooming to increase the text size.
The touchscreen enables the user to interact directly with what is displayed, rather than using a mouse, touchpad, or other such devices (other than a stylus, which is optional for most modern touchscreens).
Touchscreens are common in devices such as smartphones, handheld game consoles, personal computers, electronic voting machines, automated teller machines and point-of-sale (POS) systems. They can also be attached to computers or, as terminals, to networks. They play a prominent role in the design of digital appliances such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) and some e-readers. Touchscreens are also important in educational settings such as classrooms or on college campuses.
The popularity of smartphones, tablets, and many types of information appliances is driving the demand and acceptance of common touchscreens for portable and functional electronics. Touchscreens are found in the medical field, heavy industry, automated teller machines (ATMs), and kiosks such as museum displays or room automation, where keyboard and mouse systems do not allow a suitably intuitive, rapid, or accurate interaction by the user with the display's content.
Historically, the touchscreen sensor and its accompanying controller-based firmware have been made available by a wide array of after-market system integrators, and not by display, chip, or motherboard manufacturers. Display manufacturers and chip manufacturers have acknowledged the trend toward acceptance of touchscreens as a user interface component and have begun to integrate touchscreens into the fundamental design of their products.
English
Noun
touchscreen (plural touchscreens)
- Alternative spelling of touch screen
References
- “touchscreen”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English touch screen.