Systems and methods for enabling access to one or more applications on a device

In a multiuser touch sensitive screen display device including a touch sensitive display screen capable of receiving touch sensitive inputs from a plurality of users and displaying a plurality of application trays each tray having a tray handle, each tray associated with one of the plurality of users and each tray containing a plurality of application icons representing corresponding application programs, each application icon, when activated by one of the plurality of users, initiates an execution of a corresponding application program, wherein the multiuser touch sensitive screen display device can display a plurality of windows each window providing a user interface for a user to interact with an application program and wherein, when an application tray is hidden from view on the display screen, only the tray handle of the application tray is displayed on the display screen, a method for enabling one or more of the plurality of users to access a plurality of application programs contained in one or more of the application trays, the method comprising:

• receiving a first touch sensitive input from one of the plurality of users for accessing one of the plurality of application trays associated with the one user if the selected application tray associated with the user is hidden from view on the display screen, wherein the first touch sensitive input includes the user's pulling the associated application tray handle until the selected application tray becomes fully visible on the display screen;
• displaying a plurality of application icons contained in the associated application tray;
• receiving a second touch sensitive input from the user for starting a selected application program, wherein the second touch sensitive input includes one of the user's pulling out of the application tray an application icon associated with the selected application program or the user's touching the associated application icon;
• and
• in response to the second touch sensitive input, generating and displaying a window for providing a user interface for the selected application program, wherein the window is used to received user inputs and display outputs for a running instance of the selected application.