Dinner metaphor interface: operating your computers with a knife and fork

  • Authors:
  • Hiroyuki Hakoda;Keita Ushida

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki, Japan;Gunma National College of Technology, Maebashi-shi, Gunma, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

The authors propose an operating method for multi-touch environments based on a metaphor of the table manners of Western dishes. The user holds two styli, or uses two fingers, as a knife and fork, for operation. The fork plays a role of pointing and selection and the knife plays a role of executing a command. The actions are organized based on table manners and construct the operating method. In this paper, the authors introduce the concept of the operating method-dinner metaphor interface, and report the prototype system.