Seminar

on
Touchless touchscreen
technology
Presented By:
B.Sai Priyanka

Pursuing B.tech in department of computer science and engineering

What is touchless touchscreen technology

 Touchless Touchscreen is technology that uses gesturing as

form of input.
 It has no need of touching screen.
 This technology is high-end technology, that uses hand waves

and hand flicks.

 Objective behind building such technology is making it even

more comfortable and convenient for users to use their

devices.
 It does not need touching of screen rather system detects hand

movements in front of it by making use of various sensors.

Touchless touchscreen
 The Touchless technology are being used in many
forms in many different places.
Working:
 The system is capable of detecting movements in 3-
dimensions without ever having to put your fingers on
the screen.
 Sensors are mounted around the screen that is being

used, by interacting in the line-of-sight of these sensors

the motion is detected and interpreted into onscreen
movements.
What is the technology behind it?
 It obviously requires a sensor but the sensor is neither
hand mounted nor present on the screen.
 The sensor can be placed either on the table or near the

screen.
 And the hardware setup is so compact that it can be

fitted into a tiny device like a MP3 player or a mobile

phone.
 It recognizes the position of an object from as 5 feet.
 APPLICATIONS
TOUCHLESS UI
 The basic idea described in the patient is that there
would be sensors arrayed around the perimeter of the
device capable of sensing finger movements in 3-D
space.
TOUCHLESS SDK

 SDK stands for software development kit.

 The Touch-less SDK is an open source SDK for .NET

application.
 It enables developers to create multi-touch based

application using a webcam i.e camera for input.

Touchless monitor
 The monitor based on technology from TouchKo was
recently unproven by White Electronic Designs and
Tactyl Services at the CeBIT show.
 The technology detects motion in 3D and requires no

special worn sensor for operation.

Touch wall
 Touch wall refers to the touch screen hardware setup
itself, the corresponding software to run Touch wall
which is built on a standard version of vista, is called
Plex.
 Touch wall consists of three infrared lasers which scan

a surface.
 9 Minority Report
inspired touchless technology

 1. Tobii Rex:
Tobii Rex is an eye-tracking device from Sweden
which works with any computer running on Windows
8.The device has a pair of infrared sensors built in
that will track the user’s eyes.
2. Elliptic Labs

Elliptic Labs allows you to operate your computer

without touching it with the Windows 8 Gesture Suite.
3. Airwriting

Airwriting is a technology that allows you to write

text messages or compose emails by writing in the air.
4. eyeSight

eyeSight is a gesture techonology which allows you

to navigate through your devices by just pointing at it.
Much like how you use a remote to navigate your TV,
you don’t have to touch the screen.
5. Mauz

Mauz is a third party device that turns your iPhone

into a trackpad or mouse.
6. PointGrab

Pointgrab is something similar to eyeSight, in that

it enables users to navigate on their computer just by
pointing at it.
7. Leap Motion

Leapmotion is a motion sensor device that

recognizes the user’s fingers with its infrared LEDs and
cameras.
8. Myoelectric Armband

Myoelectric armband or MYO armband is a gadget

that allows you to control your other bluetooth
enabled devices using your finger or your hands.
9. Microsoft Kinect

It detects and recognizes a user’s body movement

and reproduces it within the video game that is
being played.
advantages
 Screen would be durable for long period of time.
 Since the screen is touchless, it will always be clear, thus
giving a clear display.
 The GUI requires lies space since commands se accepted
using sensors like verbal or hand-gestures. So, the touch area is
minimized; thus increasing the screen text content.
 If not using the verbal sensors, touch sensors are placed so
that the device gets instructions by specific movements of
hand/fingers.
Drawbacks
 The screen has to be big enough to be able to touch
the buttons without missing.
 In direct sunlight it is much less efficient and most

of the time very difficult to read the screen.

 Having a big bright screen and needing massive

computing power to run this means a very low

battery life.
conclusion
 Today’s thoughts are again around user interface.
 The Touchless touch screen user interface can be used

effectively in computers, cell phones, webcams and

laptops.
 May be few years down the line, our body can be

transformed into a virtual mouse, virtual keyboard,our

body may be turned into an input device!