Gesture Registration, Relaxation, and Reuse for Multi-Point Direct-Touch Surfaces

Wu, Mike; Shen, Chia; Ryall, Kathy; Forlines, Clifton; Balakrishnan, Ravin

doi:10.1109/tabletop.2006.19

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“…These multi-touch technologies have brought forth numerous research efforts studying interactive tables, including user interface and interaction techniques, multifinger and two-handed gestural interactions, and computer supported collaboration [7,13,14,17,20,26,24,27,28]. A few research projects have started to extend the affordances of a direct touch tabletop by varying the viewing angles from four sides [12], or augmenting a table with 3D head-tracked, head-worn displays and 3D-tracked gloves [3].…”

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Under the table interaction

Wigdor

Leigh

Forlines

et al. 2006

Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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We explore the design space of a two-sided interactive touch table, designed to receive touch input from both the top and bottom surfaces of the table. By combining two registered touch surfaces, we are able to offer 1 new dimension of input for co-located collaborative groupware. This design accomplishes the goal of increasing the relative size of the input area of a touch table while maintaining its direct-touch input paradigm. We describe the interaction properties of this two-sided touch table, report the results of a controlled experiment examining the precision of user touches to the underside of the table, and a series of application scenarios we developed for use on inverted and two-sided tables. finally, we present a list of design recommendations based on our experiences and observations with inverted and two-sided tables. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (UIST)This work may not be copied or reproduced in whole or in part for any commercial purpose. Permission to copy in whole or in part without payment of fee is granted for nonprofit educational and research purposes provided that all such whole or partial copies include the following: a notice that such copying is by permission of Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc.; an acknowledgment of the authors and individual contributions to the work; and all applicable portions of the copyright notice. Copying, reproduction, or republishing for any other purpose shall require a license with payment of fee to Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Inc. All rights reserved. ABSTRACTWe explore the design space of a two-sided interactive touch table, designed to receive touch input from both the top and bottom surfaces of the table. By combining two registered touch surfaces, we are able to offer a new dimension of input for co-located collaborative groupware. This design accomplishes the goal of increasing the relative size of the input area of a touch table while maintaining its direct-touch input paradigm. We describe the interaction properties of this two-sided touch table, report the results of a controlled experiment examining the precision of user touches to the underside of the table, and a series of application scenarios we developed for use on inverted and two-sided tables. Finally, we present a list of design recommendations based on our experiences and observations with inverted and two-sided tables.

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“…Thus, some forms of bimanual input are not possible, since the hands cannot occupy the same space at the same time. Although techniques have been proposed to decouple the input and display spaces [28], they require multiple steps, and are more complex than simply touching the display.…”

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Under the table interaction

Wigdor

Leigh

Forlines

et al. 2006

Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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“…One possible solution is using gestures for invocation [15]; however, even gestures could interfere with regular input and require specific registration phase [36]. Recent advances in hand tracking [1,29] and finger recognition [2,21] enable differentiation between the input and menu modalities.…”

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Design of unimanual multi-finger pie menu interaction

Banović

Dearman

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

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Context menus, most commonly the right click menu, are a traditional method of interaction when using a keyboard and mouse. Context menus make a subset of commands in the application quickly available to the user. However, on tabletop touchscreen computers, context menus have all but disappeared. In this paper, we investigate how to design context menus for efficient unimanual multi-touch use. We investigate the limitations of the arm, wrist, and fingers and how it relates to human performance of multi-targets selection tasks on multi-touch surface. We show that selecting targets with multiple fingers simultaneously improves the performance of target selection compared to traditional single finger selection, but also increases errors. Informed by these results, we present our own context menu design for horizontal tabletop surfaces.

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“…For example, Wu et al [18] describe a Pile-n-Browse gesture. By placing two hands on the surface, the objects between both hands are selected and can be piled by scooping both hands in or browsed through by moving the hands apart.…”

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“…Tse et al [14] explore further multi-touch and multimodal group selection techniques. To select and interact with multiple digital sticky notes, users can choose between hand-bracketing (similar to [18]), single-finger mouse-like lasso-selection, or a speech-and gesture command such as "search for similar items." Groups can then be further acted upon through speech and gestures.…”

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Understanding Multi-touch Manipulation for Surface Computing

North

Dwyer

Lee

et al. 2009

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2009

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Abstract. Two-handed, multi-touch surface computing provides a scope for interactions that are closer analogues to physical interactions than classical windowed interfaces. The design of natural and intuitive gestures is a difficult problem as we do not know how users will approach a new multi-touch interface and which gestures they will attempt to use. In this paper we study whether familiarity with other environments influences how users approach interaction with a multi-touch surface computer as well as how efficiently those users complete a simple task. Inspired by the need for object manipulation in information visualization applications, we asked users to carry out an object sorting task on a physical table, on a tabletop display, and on a desktop computer with a mouse. To compare users' gestures we produced a vocabulary of manipulation techniques that users apply in the physical world and we compare this vocabulary to the set of gestures that users attempted on the surface without training. We find that users who start with the physical model finish the task faster when they move over to using the surface than users who start with the mouse.

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Gesture Registration, Relaxation, and Reuse for Multi-Point Direct-Touch Surfaces

Cited by 138 publications

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Under the table interaction

Under the table interaction

Design of unimanual multi-finger pie menu interaction

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