Towards document engineering on pen and touch-operated interactive tabletops

  • Authors:
  • Fabrice Matulic

  • Affiliations:
  • ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Adjunct proceedings of the 25th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Touch interfaces have now become mainstream thanks to modern smartphones and tablets. However, there are still very few "productivity" applications, i.e. tools that support mundane but essential work, especially for large interactive surfaces such as digital tabletops. This work aims to partly fill the relative void in the area of document engineering by investigating what kind of intuitive and efficient tools can be provided to support the manipulation of documents on a digital workdesk, in particular the creation and editing of documents. The fundamental interaction model relies on bimanual pen and multitouch input, which was recently introduced to tabletops and enables richer interaction possibilities. The goal is ultimately to provide useful and highly accessible UIs for document-centric applications, whose design principles will hopefully pave the way from DTP towards DTTP (Digital Tabletop Publishing).