The Input Configurator toolkit: towards high input adaptability in interactive applications

  • Authors:
  • Pierre Dragicevic;Jean-Daniel Fekete

  • Affiliations:
  • Ecole des Mines de Nantes, Nantes, France;Université Paris-Sud, Orsay, France

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This article describes ICON (Input Configurator), an input management system that enables interactive applications to achieve a high level of input adaptability. We define input adaptability as the ability of an interactive application to exploit alternative input devices effectively and offer users a way of adapting input interaction to suit their needs. We describe several examples of interaction techniques implemented using ICON with little or no support from applications that are hard or impossible to implement using regular GUI toolkits.