Direct-touch vs. mouse input for tabletop displays

Authors:
Clifton Forlines;Daniel Wigdor;Chia Shen;Ravin Balakrishnan
Affiliations:
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA and University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada;Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs, Cambridge, MA;University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Venue:
Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Year:
2007

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Abstract

We investigate the differences -- in terms of bothquantitative performance and subjective preference -- between direct-touch and mouse input for unimanual andbimanual tasks on tabletop displays. The results of twoexperiments show that for bimanual tasks performed ontabletops, users benefit from direct-touch input. However,our results also indicate that mouse input may be moreappropriate for a single user working on tabletop tasksrequiring only single-point interaction.