Missed responses when using touch screen

[Paul Gr]

hi,

We are using 3M touch monitors togheter with the Vienna Test System. VTS 
only worked properly when the touch mode was set to 'button'. Perhaps this 
is also required for EPrime to detect responses properly.

Paul Groot
Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

>From: "Sean O'Malley" <omalley at ohio.edu>
>To: Eprime Listserver <eprime at mail.talkbank.org>
>Subject: Missed responses when using touch screen
>Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2005 15:38:05 -0400
>
>Has anyone run into issues where a touch screen (3M MicroTouch capacitive 
>CRT) in mouse emulation mode 'drops' subject responses?  I am finding that 
>eprime occasionally does not detect a touch, even when the meaty part of 
>the finger is very firmly used on the touch screen surface.
>
>So far, I have not been able to narrow this down to any specific action on 
>the part of the subject, other than obvious cases where the subject is 
>using the fingernail instead of fingertip.  But even in my own testing, 
>where I am very careful to use the fingertip, eprime seems to miss one in 
>every 30 or 40 responses.
>
>Thanks,
>
>--------------
>Sean O'Malley
>Ohio University
>