Figure 1: HandyScope allows users to point and manipulate the remote area using a widget. a) When users put two fingers, and drag their finger to cross the segment between the two fingers, then b) HandyScope is activated. The widget is composed of two parts, a scope and a handler. The scope is displayed on the ray between the midpoint of the two fingers; the handler is displayed around the finger. The scope is sent to remote areas to select an area to be manipulated; the handler is used to manipulate the remote area by users.
AbstractA large multi-touch tabletop has remote areas that the users might not reach by their hands. This forces users to walk around the tabletop. In this video, we present a novel remote control technique which we call HandyScope. This technique allows users to manipulate those remote areas. Moreover, users can transfer an object between the nearby area and the remote areas using a widget. In addition, users use pull-out, our own bimanual multi-touch gesture, both to invoke HandyScope, and to determine appropriate control-display ratio to point remote areas. This gesture allows multiple users to simultaneously manipulate remote areas without conflicting with other touch gestures.
Large multi-touch tabletops are useful for collocated collaborative work involving multiple users. However, applying traditional WIMP interfaces to tabletops causes problems where users cannot reach GUI elements, such as icons or buttons, on the opposite side with their hands, and they sometimes have difficulty in reading the content of GUI elements because their view does not match the orientation of the content. To solve these problems, we present HandyWidgets that are widgets localized around users' hands. The widgets are quickly invoked by a bimanual multi-touch gesture which we call "pull-out". This gesture also allows users to adjust the position, orientation, and size of the widgets, in a continuous manner after invocation.
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