Multiple input support in a model-based interaction framework

Stéphane Chatty (1, 2) , Alexandre Lemort (2) , Stéphane Valès (2)

1 LII - ENAC - Equipe Informatique Interactive
2 Intuilab

Developing for tabletops puts special requirements on interface programming frameworks: managing parallel input, device discovery, device equivalence, and describing combined interactions. We analyse these issues and describe the solutions that were used in IntuiKit, a model- based framework aimed at making the design and development of post-WIMP user interfaces more accessible. Some solutions are simple consequences of the support of multi- modality, while others are more specific to multiple touch. We illustrate these features through examples developed in several tabletop projects, including one application aimed at improving collaboration between air traffic controllers.

Mots clés: data-flow; event model; interaction framework; model-based architecture; multiple input; tabletop

Domaines: Informatique [cs]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Stéphane Chatty, Alexandre Lemort, Stéphane Valès. Multiple input support in a model-based interaction framework. TABLETOP 2007, 2nd Annual IEEE International Workshop on Horizontal Interactive Human-Computed Systems, Oct 2007, Newport, United States. pp 179-186, ⟨10.1109/TABLETOP.2007.27⟩. ⟨hal-01022134⟩