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57.4: Invited Paper : The Breadth—Depth Dichotomy: Opportunities and Crises in Expanding Sensing Capabilities
Author(s) -
Wigdor Daniel
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
sid symposium digest of technical papers
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.351
H-Index - 44
eISSN - 2168-0159
pISSN - 0097-966X
DOI - 10.1889/1.3621465
Subject(s) - variety (cybernetics) , simple (philosophy) , object (grammar) , software , computer science , range (aeronautics) , human–computer interaction , data science , engineering , artificial intelligence , operating system , aerospace engineering , epistemology , philosophy
A simple touch is not simple. What we think of as “touch” actually includes a variety of object‐sensing technologies and an even wider variety of information that can be detected about the sensed objects. This wide range of capabilities forces developers to choose between designing once for a “lowest‐common‐denominator” platform (breadth) or significantly redesigning their software for each hardware capability (depth). This dichotomy threatens the future of touch computing as a platform for innovation.