TY - GEN
T1 - Magic desk
T2 - Bringing multi-touch surfaces into desktop work
AU - Bi, Xiaojun
AU - Grossman, Tovi
AU - Matejka, Justin
AU - Fitzmaurice, George
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Despite the prominence of multi-touch technologies, there has been little work investigating its integration into the desktop environment. Bringing multi-touch into desktop computing would give users an additional input channel to leverage, enriching the current interaction paradigm dominated by a mouse and keyboard. We provide two main contributions in this domain. First, we describe the results from a study we performed, which systematically evaluates the various potential regions within the traditional desktop configuration that could become multi-touch enabled. The study sheds light on good or bad regions for multi-touch, and also the type of input most appropriate for each of these regions. Second, guided by the results from our study, we explore the design space of multi-touch-integrated desktop experiences. A set of new interaction techniques are coherently integrated into a desktop prototype, called Magic Desk, demonstrating potential uses for multi-touch enabled desktop configurations.
AB - Despite the prominence of multi-touch technologies, there has been little work investigating its integration into the desktop environment. Bringing multi-touch into desktop computing would give users an additional input channel to leverage, enriching the current interaction paradigm dominated by a mouse and keyboard. We provide two main contributions in this domain. First, we describe the results from a study we performed, which systematically evaluates the various potential regions within the traditional desktop configuration that could become multi-touch enabled. The study sheds light on good or bad regions for multi-touch, and also the type of input most appropriate for each of these regions. Second, guided by the results from our study, we explore the design space of multi-touch-integrated desktop experiences. A set of new interaction techniques are coherently integrated into a desktop prototype, called Magic Desk, demonstrating potential uses for multi-touch enabled desktop configurations.
KW - Desktop work
KW - Multi-touch
KW - TableTop
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/79958095084
U2 - 10.1145/1978942.1979309
DO - 10.1145/1978942.1979309
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79958095084
SN - 9781450302289
T3 - Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
SP - 2511
EP - 2520
BT - CHI 2011 - 29th Annual CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Conference Proceedings and Extended Abstracts
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
ER -