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HandyWidgets: local widgets pulled-out from hands

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Takuto Yoshikawa,

Buntarou Shizuki,

Jiro TanakaAuthors Info & Claims

ITS '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces

Pages 197 - 200

https://doi.org/10.1145/2396636.2396667

Published: 11 November 2012 Publication History

Abstract

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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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445340
Chang YScott SHancock M(2017)Usage of Interactive Event Timelines in Collaborative Digital Tabletops Involving AutomationCollaboration Meets Interactive Spaces10.1007/978-3-319-45853-3_10(203-232)Online publication date: 10-Jan-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45853-3_10
Kuribara TMita YOnishi KShizuki BTanaka J(2014)HandyScope: A Remote Control Technique Using Circular Widget on TabletopsHuman-Computer Interaction. Advanced Interaction Modalities and Techniques10.1007/978-3-319-07230-2_7(69-80)Online publication date: 2014
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07230-2_7

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HandyWidgets: local widgets pulled-out from hands
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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ITS '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces

November 2012

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ISBN:9781450312097

DOI:10.1145/2396636

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Tu HHuang JLiang HSkarbez RTian FDuh HKitamura YQuigley AIsbister KIgarashi TBjørn PDrucker S(2021)Distractor Effects on Crossing-Based InteractionProceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3411764.3445340(1-13)Online publication date: 6-May-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445340
Chang YScott SHancock M(2017)Usage of Interactive Event Timelines in Collaborative Digital Tabletops Involving AutomationCollaboration Meets Interactive Spaces10.1007/978-3-319-45853-3_10(203-232)Online publication date: 10-Jan-2017
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45853-3_10
Kuribara TMita YOnishi KShizuki BTanaka J(2014)HandyScope: A Remote Control Technique Using Circular Widget on TabletopsHuman-Computer Interaction. Advanced Interaction Modalities and Techniques10.1007/978-3-319-07230-2_7(69-80)Online publication date: 2014
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07230-2_7

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