Investigating multi-touch and pen gestures for diagram editing on interactive surfaces

  • Authors:
  • Mathias Frisch;Jens Heydekorn;Raimund Dachselt

  • Affiliations:
  • Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany;Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany;Otto-von-Guericke University, Magdeburg, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

Creating and editing large graphs and node-link diagrams are crucial activities in many application areas. For them, we consider multi-touch and pen input on interactive surfaces as very promising. This fundamental work presents a user study investigating how people edit node-link diagrams on an interactive tabletop. The study covers a set of basic operations, such as creating, moving, and deleting diagram elements. Participants were asked to perform spontaneous gestures for 14 given tasks. They could interact in three different ways: using one hand, both hands, as well as pen and hand together. The subjects' activities were observed and recorded in various ways, analyzed and enriched with think-aloud data. As a result, we contribute a user-elicited collection of touch and pen gestures for editing node-link diagrams. The study provides valuable insight how people would interact on interactive surfaces for this as well as other tabletop domains.