Using both hands and feet to interact with World Wind

We show how multi-touch hand gestures in combination with foot gestures can be used to perform typical basic spatial tasks within a Geographic Information System (GIS). The work is motivated by the high complexity of User Interfaces common GIS usually display and which requires a high degree of expertise form its users. Recent developments in interactive surfaces that enable the construction of low cost multi-touch displays and relatively cheap sensor technology to detect foot gestures allows the deep exploration of these input modalities for GIS users, with medium or low expertise. Combining multi-touch hand and foot interaction has a couple of advantages and helps also to rethink the use of the dominant and non-dominant hand. In pure multi-touch hand interaction systems the non-dominant hand often sets the reference frame that determines the navigation mode, while the dominant hand carries out the precise task. Since in this case one touch is only used to define a certain mode, the advantages of multi-touch are not fully exploited. Foot gestures can be used to provide continues input for a spatial navigation task (such as panning or tilting), which is more difficult to provide with the hands in a natural way.
Contact: Johannes Schöning
j.schoening (at) uni-muenster.de
http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/~j_scho09
http://ifgi.uni-muenster.de/world-wind-touch

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