Direct and Indirect Multi-Touch Interaction on a Wall Display

Jérémie Gilliot (1) , Géry Casiez (2, 3, 1) , Nicolas Roussel (1)

1 MINT2 - Méthodes et outils pour l'Interaction à gestes
2 LIFL - Laboratoire d'Informatique Fondamentale de Lille
3 Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies

Multi-touch wall displays allow to take advantage of co-located interaction (direct interaction) on very large surfaces. However interacting with content beyond arms' reach requires body movements, introducing fatigue and impacting performance. Interacting with distant content using a pointer can alleviate these problems but introduces legibility issues and loses the benefits of multi-touch interaction. We introduce WallPad, a widget designed to quickly access remote content on wall displays while addressing legibility issues and supporting direct multi-touch interaction. After briefly describing how we supported multi-touch interaction on a wall display, we present the WallPad widget and explain how it supports direct, indirect and de-localized direct interaction.

Mots clés: large display; indirect interaction; direct interaction; de-localized interaction; Multi-touch

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]; Bibliothèque électronique [cs.DL]

Jérémie Gilliot, Géry Casiez, Nicolas Roussel. Direct and Indirect Multi-Touch Interaction on a Wall Display. IHM'14, 26e conférence francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, Oct 2014, Lille, France. pp.147-152, ⟨10.1145/2670444.2670445⟩. ⟨hal-01090435⟩