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    Touch screens emerged in the 1960s from academic and corporate research labs and gained more visibility in the early 1970s as part of the PLATO project. They are now commonly used in devices like PDAs, smartphones, and tablets, driving increased demand. Early touch screens from the 1980s could only detect single point contacts, but modern multi-touch technology allows sensing multiple simultaneous points of contact and pressure. Touch screens are popular for interfaces that need to be intuitive, fast, and accurate for users interacting with displays in situations like industrial controls, museum displays, and home automation.

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    Touch screens emerged in the 1960s from academic and corporate research labs and gained more visibility in the early 1970s as part of the PLATO project. They are now commonly used in devices like PDAs, smartphones, and tablets, driving increased demand. Early touch screens from the 1980s could only detect single point contacts, but modern multi-touch technology allows sensing multiple simultaneous points of contact and pressure. Touch screens are popular for interfaces that need to be intuitive, fast, and accurate for users interacting with displays in situations like industrial controls, museum displays, and home automation.

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    Touch screens emerged in the 1960s from academic and corporate research labs and gained more visibility in the early 1970s as part of the PLATO project. They are now commonly used in devices like PDAs, smartphones, and tablets, driving increased demand. Early touch screens from the 1980s could only detect single point contacts, but modern multi-touch technology allows sensing multiple simultaneous points of contact and pressure. Touch screens are popular for interfaces that need to be intuitive, fast, and accurate for users interacting with displays in situations like industrial controls, museum displays, and home automation.

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    Touch screens emerged in the 1960s from academic and corporate research labs and gained more visibility in the early 1970s as part of the PLATO project. They are now commonly used in devices like PDAs, smartphones, and tablets, driving increased demand. Early touch screens from the 1980s could only detect single point contacts, but modern multi-touch technology allows sensing multiple simultaneous points of contact and pressure. Touch screens are popular for interfaces that need to be intuitive, fast, and accurate for users interacting with displays in situations like industrial controls, museum displays, and home automation.

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    Muhammad Zeeshan Page 3 11:55 a10/p10 10/5/2010

    History
    Touch screens emerged from academic and corporate research labs in the
    second half of the 1960s. One of the first places where they gained some
    visibility was in the terminal of a computer-assisted learning terminal that
    came out in 1972 as part of the PLATO project. They have subsequently
    become familiar in kiosk systems, such as in retail and tourist settings, on
    point of sale systems, on ATMs and on PDAs where a stylus is sometimes
    used to manipulate the GUI and to enter data. The popularity of smart
    phones, PDAs, portable game consoles and many types of information
    appliances is driving the demand for, and the acceptance of, touch screens.

    The HP-150 from 1983 was probably the world's earliest commercial touch
    screen computer. It doesn't actually have a touch screen in the strict sense,
    but a 9" Sony CRT surrounded by infrared transmitters and receivers which
    detect the position of any non-transparent object on the screen.

    Until the early 1980s, most consumer touch screens could only sense one
    point of contact at a time, and few have had the capability to sense how hard
    one is touching. This is starting to change with the commercialization of
    multi-touch technology.

    Touch screens are popular in heavy industry and in other situations, such as
    museum displays or room automation, where keyboard and mouse systems
    do not allow a satisfactory, intuitive, rapid, or accurate interaction by the
    user with the display's content.

    Historically, the touch screen 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. With
    time, however, display manufacturers and chip manufacturers worldwide
    have acknowledged the trend toward acceptance of touch screens as a highly
    desirable user interface component and have begun to integrate touch screen
    functionality into the fundamental design of their products.

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