Multi-Touch interaction

As I was writting in my previous post, Apple created a nice and user-friendly way to scroll up and down, left and right, your documents on your computer without having to move your cursor to one of these small scrolling arrows at the corners of your documents.
This technology is one of the first (if not the first) multi-touch interaction program that has gone broadly public.
We know that apple has released patents on this technology, as these drawings has been seen on the web:

Then they applied this type of technology to their soon-to-be-released Iphone.

This technology would dramatically change the way we would interact with machines. For example, our hands and fingers won't have to fit any more to some fixed size keyboards, menus would completely change according to the type of sofware in use or according to the tastes and customs of each user. This trend would ease the usability of computers by using some simple gestures to interact with the computer.

But Apple is far from being the first one working on this type of user interface. Jeff Han, has shown to the public its fantastic work on multi-touch interaction operating system. The following movie speaks by itself.



I'll post more articles on this subject has I have tones of movies showing some breath taking multi-touch interaction operating systems.