SurfaceMouse: Supplementing multi-touch interaction with a virtual mouse

Tom Bartindale; Chris Harrison; Patrick Olivier; Scott E. Hudson

doi:10.1145/1935701.1935767

SurfaceMouse: Supplementing multi-touch interaction with a virtual mouse

Tom Bartindale, Chris Harrison, Patrick Olivier, Scott E. Hudson

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Abstract

We present SurfaceMouse, a virtual mouse for multi-touch surface computing. Although moving away from the direct touch manipulation paradigm, our system brings many significant benefits seen in absolute clutched devices to surface computing. Features include high and variable control device gains, several degrees of freedom in a single hand gesture, ability to target small GUI items, and a familiar method for reaching far areas of large displays. Importantly, this benefit is realized by leveraging what users already know and have tremendous experience with - physical mice. Results from our proof-of-concept evaluation reflect this; users were able to use and recognize our system without training or prompts. Being entirely virtual, Surface-Mouse can be implemented in existing systems with little more than a software update.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, TEI'11
Pages	293-296
Number of pages	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1935701.1935767
Publication status	Published - 11 Mar 2011
Event	Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction 2011 - Madeira, Portugal Duration: 23 Jan 2011 → 26 Jan 2011 Conference number: 5th https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1935701 (Proceedings)

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Conference	Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction 2011
Abbreviated title	TEI 2011
Country/Territory	Portugal
City	Madeira
Period	23/01/11 → 26/01/11
Internet address	https://dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/10.1145/1935701 (Proceedings)

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Cursor
Multi-user
Scrolling
Surface
Table

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Bartindale, T, Harrison, C, Olivier, P & Hudson, SE 2011, SurfaceMouse: Supplementing multi-touch interaction with a virtual mouse. in Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Tangible Embedded and Embodied Interaction, TEI'11. pp. 293-296, Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction 2011, Madeira, Portugal, 23/01/11. https://doi.org/10.1145/1935701.1935767

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