Special issue on interaction with coupled and public displays

✍ Scribed by Aaron Quigley; Sriram Subramanian; Shahram Izadi

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 75 KB
• Volume: 13
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 1617-4909
• DOI: 10.1007/s00779-009-0242-7

✦ Synopsis

Recent developments have seen the widespread proliferation of both large public displays and small personal display technologies. In parallel, novel forms of humancomputer interaction such as multi-touch technology have transformed these devices from passive displays into interactive systems. Examples of such small displays include PDAs, Tablets and iPhones while examples of large interactive surfaces (multi-touch driven displays) include the Diamondtouch and Microsoft Surface. With these, users can now interact directly with the displayed objects by simply touching the display, creating a sense of immediacy and natural interaction. This sense of immediacy gives rise to a range of human-computer interactions along with support for multi-device or public display collaborative activities. Furthering Weiser's vision, the ultimate aim is to weave such new forms of seamless