13 - 18 OCTOBER 2013, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, USA

Exploring Interaction Techniques and Task Types for Direct-Touch as Input Modality

Contributors: 
Matthias Nielsen, Mikkel Baun Kjaergaard, Kaj Gronbaek
Description
Recent InfoVis interaction research has called for the inclusion of novel interaction technologies for InfoVis tools. However, it remains an underexplored question what impact novel interaction technologies will have on the existing body of work addressing interaction techniques and task types. This study presents results based on a prototype of an InfoVis tool developed to substitute conventional mouse input with direct-touch as input modality. Two versions of the prototype will be presented: one geared towards mouse input and one geared towards direct-touch input, and the implications entailed by introducing direct-touch as an input modality will be discussed.