Living with a Tabletop: Analysis and Observations of Long Term Office Use of a Multi-Touch Table

Wigdor, Daniel; Perm, G.; Ryall, Kathy; Esenther, Alan; Shen, Chia

doi:10.1109/tabletop.2007.33

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“…With the decreasing cost of large display technology and increasing demand from a growing potential consumer base, the step to adoption in the living room-and certainly the office-cannot be far away. In a pioneering effort, Wigdor et al [1] describe the use of a tabletop for long-term office use and its pros and cons.…”

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“…In fact, such devices may even totally replace standard desktop computers in the future; as a case in point, Wigdor et al [1] describe the use of a tabletop display for a single user over the period of a year. However, tabletop displays are horizontal surfaces, and such surfaces invite placing physical objects on them [2], such as paper, books, and even coffee mugs.…”

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Evaluating Physical/Virtual Occlusion Management Techniques for Horizontal Displays

Javed,

Kim,

Ghani

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Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2011

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Abstract. We evaluate unguided and guided visual search performance for a set of techniques that mitigate occlusion between physical and virtual objects on a tabletop display. The techniques are derived from a general model of hybrid physical/virtual occlusion, and take increasingly drastic measures to make the user aware of, identify, and access hidden objects-but with increasingly space-consuming and disruptive impact on the display. Performance is different depending on the visual display, suggesting a tradeoff between management strength and visual space deformation.

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Evaluating Physical/Virtual Occlusion Management Techniques for Horizontal Displays

Javed,

Kim,

Ghani

et al. 2011

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2011

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“…Without adaptation, the reported input point (gray filled circle) would result in ambiguous key selection whereas with an adaptation, the reported input point would better fit the perceived input point (black filled circle). From a pragmatic point of view, user interfaces and interaction techniques that integrate finger orientation would help mitigate one of the main issues in natural interaction, namely the arm fatigue issue [24,25]. By reducing the overall hand and arm movements for manipulation or selection tasks, users' hand and arm fatigue would be diminished as well.…”

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Usage and Recognition of Finger Orientation for Multi-Touch Tabletop Interaction

Dang¹,

André²

2011

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2011

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Abstract. Building on the observation that finger orientation is an inherent part of human's interaction in the real world, exploiting finger orientation for multitouch tabletop interaction would facilitate more natural interaction techniques. We motivate this by means of examples where the finger orientation improves or enriches interaction. Afterwards, we present a simple and fast approach to detect the finger orientation reliably for multi-touch tabletop interaction. The steps involved are computationally cheap and therefore suit the needs of tracking software operating under time-critical conditions. We show that the presented approach enables the detection of finger orientation also for fingers that touch the tabletop surface only slightly. Further, recognition rates on real data gained from the camera within a multi-touch tabletop are presented in order to give a measure for the precision and reliability of the presented approach.

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“…In order to test the concept for everyday work, the hardware would have to be integrated into a normal desk, such that the test person could sit and work there normally. Furthermore, like in the test conducted by Wigdor et al on Living with a tabletop [8], the test subject would have to use the system for a long time to get used to it and in order to get significant test results. Instead we decided to conduct a shorter study about the implemented keyboard functions.…”

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Multi-touch Table as Conventional Input Device

Dippon

Echtler

Klinker

2011

Communications in Computer and Information Science

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Abstract. In order to improve the functionality of multi-touch devices, the possibility of using them as input devices for other computers needs to be reviewed. The idea is, to get rid of many different peripherals (e.g. keyboard, mouse, multi-touch pad) by using a single multi-touch display. Furthermore the display can be used as an additional monitor to show for example toolbars, which can be directly manipulated through multi-touch gestures.We implemented a prototype, which provides an adaptive keyboard that shows shortcut keys for different applications, a multi-touch pad as well as the option to drag&drop standard Windows widgets onto the multi-touch table, which can be controlled by direct touch input. A user study was conducted to test the current system and to get information about the further approach to this concept.

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Living with a Tabletop: Analysis and Observations of Long Term Office Use of a Multi-Touch Table

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Cited by 63 publications

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Evaluating Physical/Virtual Occlusion Management Techniques for Horizontal Displays

Evaluating Physical/Virtual Occlusion Management Techniques for Horizontal Displays

Usage and Recognition of Finger Orientation for Multi-Touch Tabletop Interaction

Multi-touch Table as Conventional Input Device

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