Graceful support of 2-touch devices
Canonical is committed to pushing the edge with MT technology and supporting the ability for applications to use multiple touchpoints for all sorts of creative use cases. As such, uTouch has been targeted at devices that support 3- and 4-touch. However, we now need to consider gracefully supporting devices of a lesser capacity, since these are by far more prevalent. What design guidelines can we establish for devices that can only do two touch? Many tablets are hitting the market that, in order to remain cost effective, support just 2 touchpoints. What are the ways in which we can support this?
Tags: hci-n, hci, touch, multi-touch, multitouch, applications. gestures, hardware, design, guidelines
Blueprint information
- Status:
- Complete
- Approver:
- Duncan McGreggor
- Priority:
- Not
- Drafter:
- None
- Direction:
- Approved
- Assignee:
- Henrik Rydberg
- Definition:
- Approved
- Series goal:
- None
- Implementation:
-
Informational
- Milestone target:
- None
- Started by
- Mark Shuttleworth
- Completed by
- Mark Shuttleworth
Whiteboard
2-touch devices already well supported by current design approach. Functions mapped to 3 and 4 fingers can be accessed easily via single touch as well.
However the launcher touch interactions that have already been designed need to be implemented as a matter of priority.
