Human-Computer Interaction with a Different Touch
Event details
| Date | 15.12.2011 |
| Hour | 15:15 |
| Speaker | Prof Hans Gellersen |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Touch input and two-handed interaction were intensively studied in the mid 80's but it's taken 20 years for these ideas to emerge in the mainstream, with the advent of multi-touch interfaces. In this talk we consider touch a little differently, in three examples. The first interface we look at are routine notebooks: in survey work we have found that two thirds of users use an external mouse for notebook interaction which prompts us to consider the built-in touch pad as a free agent, to add a second pointer for two-handed input, or to support complementary input. The second example is a keyboard that we have augmented with touch sensing to obtain three-state input, and with dynamic on-key display, to enable a hybrid keyboard - one that feels like a physical keyboard and has all the flexibility of a soft touch keyboard. The third interface we discuss embraces touch for mobile phone interaction with interactive surfaces, using phones for fluid stylus-like input that is fused with multi-touch on the surface.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
Contact
- Florence Colomb