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An empirical evaluation of touch and tangible interfaces for tabletop displays

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Aurélien Lucchi,

Patrick Jermann,

Guillaume Zufferey,

Pierre DillenbourgAuthors Info & Claims

TEI '10: Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction

Pages 177 - 184

https://doi.org/10.1145/1709886.1709917

Published: 24 January 2010 Publication History

Abstract

Tabletop systems have become quite popular in recent years, during which there was considerable enthusiasm for the development of new interfaces. In this paper, we establish a comparison between touch and tangible interfaces. We set up an experiment involving several actions like translation and rotation. We recruited 40 participants to take part in a user study and we present our results with a discussion on the design of touch and tangible interfaces. Our contribution is an empirical study showing that overall, the tangible interface is much faster but under certain conditions, the touch interface could gain the upper hand.

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An empirical evaluation of touch and tangible interfaces for tabletop displays
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
    2. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens

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TEI '10: Proceedings of the fourth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction

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ISBN:9781605588414

DOI:10.1145/1709886

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