Magic desk: bringing multi-touch surfaces into desktop work

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 confi...

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2011
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Xiaojun Bi, Tovi Grossman, Justin Matejka, George W. Fitzmaurice
• Keywords: CHI 2011, Human Computer Interaction, Human Factors Design, Interaction Paradigm, Interaction Techniques