Proposed Multi-Touch Screen Whiteboard For High-Technology Teaching Using FTIR (Frustrated Total Internal Reflection) System

This research proposal is for a multi-touch screen whiteboard using Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (FTIR) technology. The proposal is submitted by 5 students from the College of Engineering and Computer Studies. Multi-touch screens allow for multiple points of contact simultaneously, providing a more natural user interface than traditional touchscreens. FTIR technology works by allowing an evanescent wave to transmit across a boundary between mediums of different refractive indices, enabling multi-touch detection. The proposed whiteboard would utilize these technologies to create an interactive teaching tool for high-technology classrooms, allowing professors to easily present topics in an engaging way that stimulates students and enhances understanding.

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Proposed Multi-Touch Screen Whiteboard For High-Technology Teaching Using FTIR (Frustrated Total Internal Reflection) System

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RESEARCH PROPOSAL

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND COMPUTER STUDIES

I. Name of Proponent:
Cruz, Alyanna Rozel T.
Garraton, Sarah Dyan S.
Jose, Joana Micah S.
Malolos, Alexis M.
Panganiban, Almira L.
II. Title of the Project/Study:
Proposed Multi-touch screen Whiteboard for High-Technology teaching
Using FTIR (Frustrated Total Internal Reflection) System
III. Background (introduction, significance of the study)
Multi-touch interaction is defined as a special case of multimodal interaction
that is interaction that involves several input means at the same time. Here, the
several input means are usually the users fingers or other parts of their hands.
Multi-touch interaction has been imagined and even studied decades ago, but only
recent hardware and algorithmic developments have made it a reality for the rest
of us (ENAC Interactive computing laboratory). Hence, Multi-touch displays are
the natural evolution of the old touch screens as they are capable of recognizing
multiple touches at the same time. This way of dealing with the hardware (and
applications) opens up a host of new opportunities for human-computer
interaction, enabling the objects on a screen to be directly manipulated by the
user. For this reason these techniques are also known as natural user interfaces
(CSP Research and Development). FTIR (Frustrated Total Internal Reflection)
says that, if an evanescent wave (such as that produced by total internal reflection)
extends across a separating medium into a region occupied by a higher index of
refraction material, energy may flow across the boundary. This phenomenon is
known as frustrated total internal reflection, and is similar to quantum mechanical
tunneling or barrier penetration. When transmission across the boundary occurs in
this manner, the "total internal reflection" is no longer total since the transmitted
wave comes at the expense of the internally reflected one (Wolfram Research).
Nowadays, technology grows so fast by these unlimited discoveries which can
make things faster and convenient.
This study demands to help the professors teach the students with High Technical
device where they can easily explain and present the topics in cool and better way,
which can also make the students more active, interested, and inquisitive during
the discussion that can help them to understand the topics in much better way.