Precise touch screens thanks to AI

Fewer typing errors when touching a smartphone keyboard: ETH Computer scientists have developed a new AI solution that enables touchscreens to sense with eight times higher resolution than current devices. Thanks to AI, their solution can infer much more precisely where fingers touch the screen. We are probably all familiar with this: if you want to quickly type a message on your smartphone, you sometimes hit the wrong letters on the small keyboard - or on other input buttons in an app. But it's not just us. The touch sensors, which detect finger input on the touch screen, have not changed much since they were first released in mobile phones in the mid-2000s. In contrast, the screens of smartphones and tablets are now providing unprecedented visual quality, which is even more evident with each new generation of devices: higher colour fidelity, higher resolution, crisper contrast. A latest-generation iPhone, for example, has a display resolution of 2532x1170 pixels.