TISCH (Tangible Interactive Surfaces for Collaboration between Humans)

Since 2006, there has been quite a lot of research into multitouch user interfaces, largely thanks to Jeff Han. Many people have started building their own hardware, and commercial devices are also starting to become available.

To enable easy development of applications for such multitouch- and tangible-based GUIs, we present libTISCH, a cross-platform, cross-device multitouch development framework. Some of the more prominent features include:

• ready-to-use multitouch widgets based on OpenGL
• reconfigurable, hardware-independent gesture recognition engine
• support for widely used (move, scale, rotate..) as well as custom gestures

• hardware drivers for FTIR, DI, Wiimote, DiamondTouch..
• TUIO converters: source and sink

• cross-platform: Linux, MacOS X, Windows (32 and 64 bit)
• cross-language: C++ with bindings for C#, Java, Python
  

Details below:
http://tisch.sourceforge.net/