Cooperative gestures: multi-user gestural interactions for co-located groupware

Multi-user, touch-sensing input devices create opportunities for the use of cooperative gestures ? multi-user gestural interactions for single display groupware. Cooperative gestures are interactions where the system interprets the gestures of more than one user as contributing to a single, combined command. Cooperative gestures can be used to enhance users' sense of teamwork, increase awareness of important system events, facilitate reachability and access control on large, shared displays, or add a unique touch to an entertainment-oriented activity. This paper discusses motivating scenarios for the use of cooperative gesturing and describes some initial experiences with CollabDraw, a system for collaborative art and photo manipulation. We identify design issues relevant to cooperative gesturing interfaces, and present a preliminary design framework. We conclude by identifying directions for future research on cooperative gesturing interaction techniques. Author Keywords Coopera...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2006
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Meredith Ringel Morris, Anqi Huang, Andreas Paepcke, Terry Winograd
• Keywords: CHI 2006, Computer-supported Cooperative Work, Cooperative Gesturing Interfaces, Human Computer Interaction, Keywords Cooperative Gestures