Detecting and leveraging finger orientation for interaction with direct-touch surfaces

UIST 2009 - Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 23-32

  Wang, Feng ^a   Cao, Xiang ^b   Ren, Xiangshi ^a   Irani, Pourang ^c  

^a KOCHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b MICROSOFT RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Direct touch surface; Finger orientation; Orientation aware interface

Indexed keywords

CURRENT INTERACTIONS; DIRECT-TOUCH SURFACE; EXPERIMENTAL EVALUATION; HIGHER-LEVEL INFORMATION; INPUT CHANNELS; INTERACTION TECHNIQUES; INTERACTIVE SURFACES; ORIENTATION VECTOR; SIMPLE ALGORITHM;

COMPUTER SOFTWARE;

GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES;

EID: 70450159307     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1622176.1622182     Document Type: Conference Paper

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