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A unified multi-touch & multi-pointer software architecture for supporting collocated work on the desktop

January 1, 2009 | Media and Technology
Most current multi-touch capable interactive user interfaces for tabletop are built from custom toolkits that are decoupled from, and on top of, the “Desktop” provided by the underlying Operating System. However, this approach requires that each individual touch system build their own suite of touch capable custom applications (such as photo browsers), usually resulting in limited functionality. In this paper, we propose a software architecture for supporting and integrating multi-touch capability on existing desktop systems, where multi-touch and multiple single pointer input can be used simultaneously to manipulate existing application windows.

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  • Kelvin Cheng
    Author
    Australian Technology Park
  • Benjamin Itzstein
    Author
    Australian Technology Park
  • Paul Sztajer
    Author
    Australian Technology Park
  • Markus Rittenbruch
    Author
    Australian Technology Park
  • Citation

    Resource Type: Report
    Discipline: Computing and information science | Education and learning science
    Audience: Museum/ISE Professionals | Scientists
    Environment Type: Media and Technology | Websites, Mobile Apps, and Online Media

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