Chapter 17Incorporating Multi-Touch and Gestures into Mobile Learning

Chad Udell

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We live in a touchy-feely, device-driven world. Your phone, tablets, and likely your laptop have some ability to interpret and use multi-touch input to assist with using your devices in a wide variety of ways. These types of inputs help us interact with on-screen elements, mimic real-world gestures, and lower the wall between the metaphor of icon-driven graphics and physical objects. You’ve likely seen videos of new computer users, children, and even animals interacting with smart phones and tablets naturally, easily, and with few troubles at all. These devices ...

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