Rueters-Ward Services Short Articles

Copyright © Thu Mar 7 10:52:50 EST 2024

A few clients have asked to see examples of my writing.
Specifically, they wanted to see how well I could explain something about a technical subject I know well, to a "simplier" audience (that was how they put it).

The result was these short articles on topics from some of the projects I have done.

Copyright © 2019, 2020, 2021 by Jean Renard Ward.

Permission is hereby given for them to be cited or reproduced for any purpose, provided an equivalent copyright notice and statement of permission is included, with attribution of the source including this URL, and there is no abridgement made to the article.

See also the Annotated Bibliography posting at http://www.ruetersward.com/biblio.html

Thank you.
      
Jean Renard Ward
Rueters-Ward Services
1 Lexington Avenue, #1A
Brooklyn, New York 11238
phone: 617-600-4095, 781-267-0156
URL:   http://www.ruetersward.com
Email: rwservices@rcn.com, jrward@alum.mit.edu

Contents:

      
A Brief Prior Art History of Multi-touch, Touchscreens, and Multi-Touch Gestures
      
A Brief History of the Development of Touchscreen Gesturing on Tablets, Smartphones and Other Devices
      
A Brief Overview of Haptic Input Technologies for Touchscreens (And Other Objects)
      
Brief (but Broad) Highlights of the History of Digital Rights Management and the Like
      
Briefly, how much is there to know about touchscreens and tablets, anyway?

(NOTE: If the links above do not work, please try the mirrors at
       http://www.ruetersward.com/shortarticles/index.html) and
        http://rwservices.no-ip.info/shortarticles/index.html).
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