Here are the URLs with titles and short summaries related to the term “Touchscreen” from Wikipedia.com:
- Touchscreen – Wikipedia
This Wikipedia page provides a comprehensive overview of touchscreen technology, including its history and various types of touchscreens. It covers the development of touchscreens from the H.P. Touch Computer in 1983 to the present day, discussing their evolution and widespread use in devices such as smartphones, tablets, and kiosks. - Touchscreen – Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Simple English Wikipedia page offers a basic explanation of touchscreens, describing them as computer screens that can be operated by touching them with a finger or a stylus pen instead of using a mouse and keyboard. It also provides a brief history of touchscreen technology and mentions the wide range of devices that make use of touchscreens today. - Resistive touchscreen – Wikipedia
This Wikipedia page specifically focuses on resistive touchscreens, explaining their composition and operation in the context of touch-sensitive computer displays. It discusses the two types of metallic layers used in resistive touchscreens and provides an overview of their characteristics and applications. - Multi-touch – Wikipedia
The Wikipedia page on multi-touch technology delves into the concept of multi-touch, which enables a surface to recognize the presence of more than one point of contact. It covers the history and development of multi-touch technology, as well as its integration and display of multiple image layers.
These resources from Wikipedia provide a wealth of information on touchscreens, including their history, types, and applications.
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.