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Abstract: This seminar will provide a
fast-paced survey of all current transparent touch-screen technologies,
including analog and digital resistive, surface capacitive, surface
acoustic wave (SAW), infrared (conventional and waveguide based), projected
capacitive (wire and ITO-
based), camera-based optical, bending wave (APR and DST), force sensing,
and LCD in-cell elements (optical, capacitive and resistive). How each
technology works will be explained briefly with a conceptual drawing. The
primary applications, advantages, disadvantages, market share, market
leaders, and market trends of each technology will be identified. The
basics of multi-touch will be explained. Finally, the speaker will conclude
with a prediction of which touch technologies are likely to gain share in
five application categories: mobile devices, POS terminals, consumer PCs
and monitors, kiosks, and interactive digital signage. The speaker will
answer questions after the seminar for as long as anyone wants to keep
asking them.
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Biography: Geoff Walker is the Global
Director of Business Development for Elo TouchSystems, a business
unit of Tyco Electronics. As such he is responsible for analyzing and
communicating existing & future customer requirements to guide Elo’s
technology & product roadmaps and
development investments. A mobile-computing industry pioneer, Geoff was
employee #49 at GRiD Systems, where he worked on the first laptop in 1982
and the first pen tablet in 1989. Geoff served as product architect and VP
of Marketing at Fujitsu Personal Systems, where he architected all of
Fujitsu’s pen tablet products from 1993-1999. Geoff was employee #30 at
Handspring, where he worked on the Visor Prism (Handspring's first color
PDA) and the VisorPhone (the predecessor of the Treo smartphone). Prior to
joining Elo at the end of 2007, Geoff ran his own consulting firm (Walker
Mobile, LLC) for seven years, focusing on touchscreens, mobile displays and
mobile computers. During that time Geoff also served as the Technology
Editor of Pen Computing magazine, the Associate Editor of the Veritas
et Visus series of display-industry newsletters, and the Guest Editor
for Touch of SID's Information Display magazine. Geoff holds
BS-Electrical Engineering and BS-English degrees from Polytechnic
University of New York (formerly Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn), and
has
completed the coursework for an MBA in Marketing from New York University.
The Seminar is free. Please join the speaker
for a no-host dinner after the seminar. Directions to the restaurant will
be provided at the seminar. Non-Members are welcome. RSVP to Gary Johnson
at Gary.Johnson@tek.com or (503)
627-1985. Please indicate if you plan to participate in the dinner.
Directions
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