By: Max and Joel

TOUCHSCREEN
TECHNOLOGY
Capacitive Resistive
Working Principle:
Working Principle: There are 2 types: Purposes:
Capacitive touch Surface: They have When a user touches
screens work with sensors at the corners and the screen, the 2 thin Old phones such
anything that holds an across the surface of a metallic layers make as the LG optimus,
film. contact, resulting in
electrical charge and do
Projective: Uses a grid of electical flow. The point iPhone 4, 
not use the pressure of
a finger for it to work.
rows and columns with a
of contact is detected iPhone 3GS, etc.
chip for the sensor. Limitations:
One example of this by the change in
Limitations:
would be the iPhone. voltage.  1. Low image clarity
1. Does not work
Advantages: Advantages: 2. Outer polyester firm
with a stylus/
1. Requires less 1. Can be activated is vulnerable to
fingernail/ gloved
pressure
hand (not with any object damage from
2. Even if the screen is 2. Lowest cost touch scratching, poking
accurate)
cracked, the device
2. Glass is more technology and sharp objects.
can still work
susceptible to 3. Low power
3. The screen is very
high quality
crack damage consumption

Infrared
Working Principles: Purposes: Advantages: Limitations:
Infrared monitors use 1. An ATM 1. Highest image 1. Sensitive to water
IR emitters and 2. Ticketing clarity and light 2. Expensive
receivers to create an machines transmission of all 3. Easy to break
invisible grid of light 3. Interactive touch technologies 4. Accidental
beams across the whiteboard 2. Unlimited "touch activation may
screen. When an 4. Medical life" occur because of
object interrupts the equipment 3. Surface cannot be the infrared beams
invisible infrared light scratched. are actually above
beam, the sensors the glass surface.
are able to locate the
touch point.