Informing the Design of Direct-Touch Tabletops

Author

Shen, Hia ; Ryall, Kathy ; Forlines, Clifton ; Esenther, Alan ; Vernier, Frédéric D. ; Everitt, Katherine ; Wu, Mike ; Wigdor, Daniel ; Morris, Meredith Ringel ; Hancock, Mark ; Tse, Edward

Author_Institution

Mitsubishi Electr. Res. Labs.

Volume

26

Issue

5

fYear

2006

Firstpage

36

Lastpage

46

Abstract

Tables provide a large and natural interface for supporting direct manipulation of visual content for human-to-human interactions. Such surfaces also support collaboration, coordination, and parallel problem solving. However, the direct-touch table metaphor also presents considerable challenges, including the need for input methods that transcend traditional mouse- and keyboard-based designs. In this paper, we´ve designed, implemented, and studied a variety of tabletop user interfaces, interaction techniques, and usage scenarios

Keywords

computer displays; human computer interaction; large screen displays; touch sensitive screens; user interfaces; direct-touch tabletop display design; human-to-human interaction; input methods; keyboard-based design; mouse-based design; parallel problem solving; tabletop user interface design; user interface; visual content manipulation; Application software; Displays; Feedback; Fingers; Graphical user interfaces; Magnetic analysis; Magnetic separation; Mice; Usability; Multidisplay interactive environment; multiuser multitouch interactive tables; tabletop human computer interaction techniques; touch surface user interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Computer Graphics and Applications, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

0272-1716

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/MCG.2006.109

Filename

1683692