lhamilton did such a terrific job of live blogging the PDC multi-touch session via Twitter that I thought for those of us that can’t wait for a video recording to be posted later, that we could all enjoy his tweets (older posts last):
HP TouchSmart interface in Vista is built on top of existing RTS API in WPF 3.5 (all single touch) 6 minutes ago from twhirl
Q&A will there be support for hardware drivers? they have a white paper and next week is all about hardware 19 minutes ago from twhirl
Q&A when you register a touch window wll it still receive procesural commands? not currently, there are conflicts 20 minutes ago from twhirl
goal is to make use of all the tools and making them interoperable 22 minutes ago from twhirl
Q&A what is the clarity between WPF support controls between win7 and Surface? scatterview may, but their still working thru the process 22 minutes ago from twhirl
Q&A what is the expected quality of gestures? see for yourself, still tuning gestures and collecting data 24 minutes ago from twhirl
Q&A do you support finger orientation? Not currently treathing those properties as a requirement 24 minutes ago from twhirl
Q&A can you support multiple windows? You can’t gesture in 2 windows simultaneously YET 25 minutes ago from twhirl
Q&A is there a limit to the number of contacts? NO, only currently hardware issues 27 minutes ago from twhirl
Q&A can i run Surface app on Win7? NO, different support 27 minutes ago from twhirl
#pdc2008 NO SUPPORT PLANNED FOR SILVERLIGHT 30 minutes ago from twhirl
#pdc2008 Repeat – NO MT SUPPORT FOR VISTA 30 minutes ago from twhirl
Q&A: will there be MT support in Vista? there will be extensible mechanism, but you will have to write your own inputs, NO VISTA SUPPORT! 30 minutes ago from twhirl
still no MT for keyboard 32 minutes ago from twhirl
broad range of hardware for supporting different numbers of contacts (most are 2 contacts) 33 minutes ago from twhirl
wintouch@microsoft.com 34 minutes ago from twhirl
WHAT DO YOU NEED? hardware – dell latitude XY and HP TouchSmart 2; Software – supplied sdk; 4.0 release will be out before end ’09 35 minutes ago from twhirl
CTA: Decide which application scenarios make sense for touch, decide which tier of investment 36 minutes ago from twhirl
Partners – Autodesk, avoco secure, corel, cyberlink, fuel industries, identity mine, etc 36 minutes ago from twhirl
if you use your own gestures to map to useful, intuitive gestures 33 minutes ago from twhirl
gesture guidelines – use common gestures, gestures need to be NUI, moving away from shotcut style gestures to be more direct 33 minutes ago from twhirl
be aware of hardware – form factor, avoid on-hover UI, edges, jitter, etc 34 minutes ago from twhirl
UX Considerations: general guidelines – big targets, whitespace, avoid hover, see ux guidelines … 34 minutes ago from twhirl
lost connectivity in the building for about 30 min, so i’ll post notes later 35 minutes ago from twhirl
there a messages returned based on these activities 38 minutes ago from twhirl
WM_GESTURECOMMAND: compound gestures, coalescing, message bubbling and capture, legacy handling & SFP (falls in “better”) about 1 hour ago from twhirl
showing some sandbox app that receives gesture notifications about 1 hour ago from twhirl
demoing a “better” app with things like inertia, double tapping (app is XPS ; added support to change view as you zoom out about 1 hour ago from twhirl
Touch will be integrated; surface will still have slightly diff path to address optics about 1 hour ago from twhirl
touch dev roadmap: seperate track from surface, but want to use WPF 4.0 to tie them together about 1 hour ago from twhirl
Good – free support, ux tweeks; Better – gesture support, touch-friendly ux; Best – touch optimized experience (key pt for Dll) about 1 hour ago from twhirl
Structured approach to adding touch: content consumption, mobile, media and ent; decide which tier of investment is appropriate .. about 1 hour ago from twhirl
key scenarios: navigating and consuming, reading and sorting email, viewing photos, playing casual games, consuming music and video about 1 hour ago from twhirl
content consumption works better than content management about 1 hour ago from twhirl
they have floating controls in a window panel; ugh .. but the 3d earth stuff looks badass as usual about 1 hour ago from twhirl
“friends from the Surface team have built this touch app for demonstration” HAHA … its Virtual Earth and nothing is cached so its slow about 1 hour ago from twhirl
this is an awful presentation, you can only see 1/3 of the screen and everything is dark and muddy … good job guys! about 2 hours ago from twhirl
funny, they have laid down the HP TouchSmart on the flat and have a horrible camera about it so that you can see their fingers about 2 hours ago from twhirl
again using paint as an example about 2 hours ago from twhirl
they are talking about gestures “panning” (not scrolling); “zooming” “flick” “pinch” “rotate” about 2 hours ago from twhirl
DEVELOPING FOR MULTI-TOUCH about 2 hours ago from twhirl