Applying bimanual interaction principles to text input on multi-touch surfaces and tabletops

  • Authors:
  • Liam Don;Shamus P. Smith

  • Affiliations:
  • Durham University;Durham University

  • Venue:
  • ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Multi-touch surfaces and tabletops present new challenges and possibilities for text input. By basing designs on established theoretical models of bimanual interaction, it is possible to evaluate the best choice of bimanual technique for a novel form of text input. As a first step, we propose an asymmetric bimanual text entry method for the purpose of evaluation. Early results indicate that text entry performance improves more quickly using the novel method, while overall speed is very similar.