User interface with displaced representation of touch area

摘要

The invention relates to a data processing system comprising a display screen ( 102 ), a graphical user interface for displaying objects on the display screen, and detection means ( 102 ) for detecting a touch position of a pointing object ( 103 ) on the display screen. The detection means ( 102 ) is capable of measuring a distance between the pointing object and the display screen. A property of the displayed objects is dependent on the measured distance between the pointing object and the display screen.