{"id":4171,"date":"2010-04-26T13:13:05","date_gmt":"2010-04-26T17:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=4171"},"modified":"2010-04-26T13:29:17","modified_gmt":"2010-04-26T17:29:17","slug":"beyond-the-ipad-massive-multitouch-displays-have-big-social-potential","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/04\/26\/beyond-the-ipad-massive-multitouch-displays-have-big-social-potential\/","title":{"rendered":"Beyond the iPad: Massive MultiTouch Displays Have Big Social Potential"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/epicenter\/2010\/04\/beyond-the-ipad-massive-multitouch-displays-have-big-social-potential\/\" target=\"_blank\">Beyond the iPad: Massive MultiTouch Displays Have Big Social  Potential<\/a><\/strong> &#8212; from Wired.com [via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.touchuserinterface.com\/2010\/04\/multitouch-by-multiple-people.html\" target=\"_blank\">touchuserinterface.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">Apple appears to have been right in betting that people would embrace  a big version of the iPod Touch; the increased sense of intimacy with  no keyboard or mouse chaperons is palpable. But even larger  touchscreens, like the one the Finnish company MultiTouch let us play  around with last week, can track each fingertip of a large group of  people \u2014 a key distinction that enables a more social set of behaviors,  because multiple people can use them at the same time.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">These screens maintain their sensitivity to touch even when mounted  behind bulletproof glass up to one inch thick, which makes MultiTouch\u2019s  screens equally suited to the board room, a university lab or public  displays. Though they are probably too expensive to put one in your  home, unless your home has been featured on <em>Lifestyles of the Rich  and Famous<\/em> or <em>Cribs<\/em>.<\/p>\n<div id=\"TixyyLink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/epicenter\/2010\/04\/beyond-the-ipad-massive-multitouch-displays-have-big-social-potential\/#ixzz0mE9V65Nn\"><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/epicenter\/2010\/04\/beyond-the-ipad-massive-multitouch-displays-have-big-social-potential\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4172\" title=\"multi-touch-image\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/multi-touch-image.jpg\" alt=\"Multi-touch Beyond the iPad: Massive MultiTouch Displays Have Big Social Potential\" width=\"530\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/multi-touch-image.jpg 530w, http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/04\/multi-touch-image-150x108.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 530px) 100vw, 530px\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div id=\"TixyyLink\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wired.com\/epicenter\/2010\/04\/beyond-the-ipad-massive-multitouch-displays-have-big-social-potential\/#ixzz0mE9NKXBm\"><br \/>\n<\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>Recommendation from DSC:<br \/>\nInvestigate piloting a multi-touch wall in one of your smart classrooms. <a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2010\/03\/12\/a-vision-of-the-future-smart-classroom\/\" target=\"_self\">I am aiming for this &#8212; as it is nicely addresses multiple disciplines.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beyond the iPad: Massive MultiTouch Displays Have Big Social Potential &#8212; from Wired.com [via touchuserinterface.com] Apple appears to have been right in betting that people would embrace a big version of the iPod Touch; the increased sense of intimacy with no keyboard or mouse chaperons is palpable. But even larger touchscreens, like the one the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,311,84],"tags":[567,723,612],"class_list":["post-4171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-multi-touch","category-presentations","category-smart-classrooms","tag-multi-touch","tag-presentations","tag-smart-classrooms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4171"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4181,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4171\/revisions\/4181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}