Gesture-Supported Document Creation on Pen and Touch Tabletops

Authors
Fabrice Matulic, Moira C. Norrie, Ihab Al Kabary, Heiko Schuldt
Type
In Proceedings
Date
2013/4
Appears in
Proceedings of the 31st ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013)
Location
Paris, France
Publisher
ACM
Abstract
We present an ongoing effort to design and implement a prototype system for pen and touch-operated digital workdesks supporting the activity of document creation. Our application exploits bimanual gestures to perform common document editing operations including element manipulations, text input, clipart retrieval and insertion in a mostly direct way. For many of our gestures, we rely on pen-mode switching actions triggered by postures of the non-dominant hand, which allows us to provide a largely widget-free yet efficient user interface.