Interactive multi-touch desks look like giant iPhones, say Durham designers

They look like something out of Star Trek, and they might well land in a classroom near you. They're school desks, but not as you know them, say their Durham University designers.

The interactive multi-touch desks look and act like a large version of an Apple iPhone.

"The new desk can be both a screen and a keyboard. It can act like a multi-touch whiteboard and several students can use it at once," said Dr Liz Burd, who led the university's Technology-Enhanced Learning (TEL) group that developed them.

"It offers fantastic scope for participatory teaching and learning," she said.

The desks, which are networked and linked to a teachers' console, recognise multiple touches on the desktop, using infrared light.

Several students will be able to work together, as the desks allow simultaneous screen contact using fingers or pens.

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http://smart.dur.ac.uk/index.php?n=Main.MultitouchPage

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