Quarry Lane senior Christopher Hair recently
set out to research and build a touch screen computer display. Hair demonstrated his working prototype,
called a “Frustrated Total Internal Reflection Multi-Touch Display,” for Quarry
Lane staff members last month.
Hair, who was interested in the idea
of human-computer interaction, spent over 200 hundred hours developing the
hardware and some of the software for the device. When asked where he sees
this technology going in the future, Chris focused on education. He said, “The possibilities are extensive, as
you can image, but I see it being particularly useful in the realm of
education. I envision a classroom full
of desks that have built-in computer displays with applications that enable students
to record lectures, take notes, digitally interact with the instructor and
classmates, browse the internet for further research and refer to a
dictionary.”
Hair’s project was initiated as an
assignment in the Applied Science II class, which is offered by
Quarry Lane as part of the Science, Engineering and Technology Track - a course
of study specifically formulated to challenge students who excel in the areas
of mathematics and science and wish to pursue these areas as a future
career.
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