MS Research project solves mobile touch screen problems
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
A computer science student and a developer at Microsoft Research have created a technique designed to make it easier to select items on a mobile-phone screen with a finger and not a tiny pointed stylus.
The development comes just before Apple Inc.'s much anticipated iPhone, with its touch screen, hits the market in June.
The Microsoft Research project, called Shift, automatically displays an image on the screen above where users place their finger showing the area under the users' finger. The image is circular and includes a small X. By toggling the tip of the finger, users can move the X to place it on top of the item they want to choose. Lifting the finger from the screen selects the item.