HandyWidgets: Local widgets pulled-out from hands

Takuto Yoshikawa; Buntarou Shizuki; Jiro Tanaka

doi:10.1145/2396636.2396667

HandyWidgets: Local widgets pulled-out from hands

Takuto Yoshikawa^*, Buntarou Shizuki, Jiro Tanaka

^*Corresponding author for this work

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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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	ITS 2012 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
Pages	197-200
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2396636.2396667
Publication status	Published - 2012
Externally published	Yes
Event	7th ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, ITS 2012 - Cambridge, MA, United States Duration: 2012 Nov 11 → 2012 Nov 14

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Name	ITS 2012 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

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Conference	7th ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, ITS 2012
Country/Territory	United States
City	Cambridge, MA
Period	12/11/11 → 12/11/14

Keywords

bimanual interaction
crossing
gestures
multi-touch
tabletops

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Computer Networks and Communications
Hardware and Architecture
Human-Computer Interaction

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HandyWidgets: Local widgets pulled-out from hands. / Yoshikawa, Takuto; Shizuki, Buntarou; Tanaka, Jiro.
ITS 2012 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces. 2012. p. 197-200 (ITS 2012 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Yoshikawa, T, Shizuki, B & Tanaka, J 2012, HandyWidgets: Local widgets pulled-out from hands. in ITS 2012 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces. ITS 2012 - Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, pp. 197-200, 7th ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, ITS 2012, Cambridge, MA, United States, 12/11/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/2396636.2396667

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