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ThinSight: A Thin Form-Factor Interactive Surface Technology

By Shahram Izadi, Steve Hodges, Alex Butler, Darren West, Alban Rrustemi, Mike Molloy, William Buxton
Communications of the ACM, December 2009, Vol. 52 No. 12, Pages 90-98
10.1145/1610252.1610277
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ThinSight interactive surface technology — ThinSight technology can sense fingertips and hands near an LCD surface to enable multitouch interaction.

Credit: Microsoft Research Cambridge, U.K.

ThinSight is a thin form-factor interactive surface technology based on optical sensors embedded inside a regular LCD. These augment the display with the ability to sense a variety of objects near the surface, including fingertips and hands, to enable multitouch interaction.

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