Dr. Dobbs has published an article called "Designing for Multi-Touch, Multi-User and Gesture-Based Systems" Joe Eden of Infragistics.It's a nice introduction to the the design concerns faced by multi-touch developers for Microsoft Surface and other tabletop multitouch systems.
One term I hadn't heard of before is Phicons, which are "physical icons that can be used to show possible actions". For example, a tagged wafer or controller that you pick up and drop on the screen to control it. Of course, everyone doing Surface development is already using tagged objects this way, but its nice to have a term, Phicon, to use when discussing them.
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