UIST'09: Augmenting Interactive Tables with Mice & Keyboards

Presented at UIST (ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology) http://www.acm.org/uist/

PAPER ABSTRACT
This note examines the role traditional input devices can play in surface computing. Mice and keyboards can enhance tabletop technologies since they support high fidelity input, facilitate interaction with distant objects, and serve as a proxy for user identity and position. Interactive tabletops, in turn, can enhance the functionality of traditional input devices: they provide spatial sensing, augment devices with co-located visual content, and support connections among a plurality of devices. We introduce eight interaction techniques for a table with mice and keyboards, and we discuss the design space of such interactions.

AUTHORS:
Björn Hartmann, Meredith Ringel Morris, Hrvoje Benko, Andrew D. Wilson
Stanford University HCI Group, Microsoft Corporation

LINK TO PUBLICATION:
http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1622176.1622204

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Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• UIST
• user
• interface
• software
• technology
• research
• human
• factors
• touch
• table
• Interactive
• tabletops
• surface
• computing

[AKSoapy29]

This is sweet! Makes me want to make my own OS!

[WorldOfTyler]

when can i buy this!

[Bielocke]

@SuperSZ I'll take my time to learn them, AS I am VERY interested xDD

[babybirdhome]

Seems like you don't really NEED a physical mouse in this environment. The same could be done with a digital "virtual" mouse.

Although I wouldn't like a digital keyboard because in the case of typing I'd rather have the feedback from physical buttons, I think a virtual mouse would be fine if the hand-tracking were good enough.

[SuperSZ]

woah, that's what I call futuristic. Nowadays I handle technology in general pretty good, but it's advancing so fast, that I think that when I will be 40 years old (for example) I won't have an idea of how to do lot of stuff (cause I will be busy working and won't have time to learn alll those new and interesting things)....