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INDEX1.Introduction2.History of touch screen3.Why touch screen?4.Benefits of touch screen5.How does a touch screen works6.Type of touch screen7.What are touch screen used for8.FAQ9.Bibliography INTRODUCTION A touch screen is computer display screen that is sensitive tohuman touch, allowing a user to interact with the computer bytouching pictures or words on the screen. Touch screen are usedwith information kiosks (an interactive computer terminalavailable for public use, as one with internet access or site specificinformation), computer based training devices, and systemdesigned to help individuals who have difficulty in manipulating amouse or keyboard. Touch screen technology can be used as analternative user interface with application that normally requires amouse, such as a web browser. Some applications are designedspecifically for touch screen technology, often having larger iconand link than typical PC application. Monitors are available with built in touch screen kit.A touch screen kit includes a touch screen panel, a controller, and asoftware driver. The touch screen panels are is a clear panelattached externally to the monitors that plug in to a serial or auniversal serial Bus (USB) port a bus Card installed in side thecomputer. The touch screen panel registers touch event and passesthese signal to controller. The controller then processes the signalsand sends the data to the processor. The software driver translatesthe touch events into mouse events. Driver can be provided for both Window and Macintosh operating systems. Internal touchscreen kits are available but require professional installation because the must be installed inside the monitors. HISTORY OF TOUCH SCREEMTECHNOLOGY Dr. Sam Hurst, founder of Elographics, developed the first touchscreenwhile he was an instructor at the university of Kentucky in 1971.Ten stockholders founded Elographics, Inc. in March 1971, to produceGraphical data Digitizers for use in research and industrial application, withthe, principal being Dr. Sam Hurst. He was on leave from the Oak Ridge National Laboratory to tech at the University of Kentucky for two years,where he was faced with a need to read a huge stack of strip chart data. Itwould have taken two graduate student s approximately two month to do thetask. He started to thinking of a way to read the and during the process, theElograph (Electronic graphics) coordinate measuring system andElographics the company were born. The University Kentucky researchfoundation applied for and was granted a patent on the Elograph. Thefoundation granted an exclusive license to Elographics. The touch screen is one of the easiest to use and most intuitive of all PCinterface of choices fro a wide variety of applications. A touch interface toallows users to navigate a computer system by touching icon or links on thescreen. Touch Screen

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