Body Panning: a movement-based navigation technique for large interactive surfaces

Authors:
Daniel Klinkhammer;Jan Oke Tennie;Paula Erdoes;Harald Reiterer
Affiliations:
University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany;University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany;University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany;University of Konstanz, Konstanz, Germany
Venue:
Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces
Year:
2013

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Abstract

In this note we introduce Body Panning, a novel interaction technique for horizontal panning on interactive surfaces. Based on an established sensory hardware setup, we implemented a robust body tracking system for a large-scaled tabletop. On this basis a user can pan through a spatial user interface by adjusting her position at the table. As a natural form of interaction, this technique is convenient and applicable to many existing use cases and applic's navigational and spatial memory performance. We conducted an experiment between a common touch panning and a body panning interface to find out about differences in these performances. For the body panning condition, we observed an increased spatial memory performance and an invariant navigation performance. We present and discuss these results focusing on application domains for the body panning technique.