An empirical evaluation of touch and tangible interfaces for tabletop displays

TEI'10 - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 177-184

  Lucchi, Aurélien ^a   Jermann, Patrick ^a   Zufferey, Guillaume ^a   Dillenbourg, Pierre ^a  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

HCI; Interface; Tabletop; Tangible; Touch

Indexed keywords

EMPIRICAL EVALUATIONS; EMPIRICAL STUDIES; TABLETOP DISPLAYS; TABLETOP SYSTEMS; TANGIBLE INTERFACES; TOUCH INTERFACES; USER STUDY;

COMPUTER SUPPORTED COOPERATIVE WORK;

EID: 77950793578     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1709886.1709917     Document Type: Conference Paper

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