Software allows interactive tabletop displays on web

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URL

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101123174506.htm

Description

Researchers have developed a new type of software that enables people to use large visual displays and touch screens interactively over the Internet for business and homeland security applications. See Also: Computers & Math 

   * Software
   * Internet
   * Computer Programming
   * Communications
   * Computer Science
   * Mobile Computing

Reference 

   * User interface design
   * Videoconferencing
   * Application software
   * Graphical user interface

Tabletop touch-operated displays are becoming popular with professionals in various fields, said Niklas Elmqvist, an assistant professor of electrical and computer engineering at Purdue University.

"These displays are like large iPhones, and because they are large they invite collaboration," he said. "So we created a software framework that allows more than one display to connect and share the same space over the Internet."

Users are able to pan and zoom using finger-touch commands, said Elmqvist, who named the software

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