[Editor's note: See earlier posts on Google Maps multitouch and AS3 in Flash, Flex, and Air, and 3rd. From Tom Carden, a San Francisco-based programmer and designer at Stamen Design.]
Republished from Random Etc.
Here’s a nice overview of how touch events are modelled in mobile Safari on the iphone. Here’s a student paper detailing some multi-touch code architectures and actual code too.
Here’s a nice article on single point gesture recognition for games, here are lovely simple single stroke and multi-stroke gesture recognisers in javascript. Here’s the corresponding paper. Here’s a paper about modelling gestures using Markov chains.
And here’s a gesture recognition discussion thread featuring some of the above links and many more.
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