Zack Henkel
Derek Landini
Title - Manual deskterity: an exploration of simultaneous pen + touch direct input
Authors - Ken Hinckley, Koji Yatani, Michel Pahud, Nicole Coddington, Jenny Rodenhouse, Andy Wilson, Hrvoje Benko, Bill Buxton
Summary This article entitled "Manual deskterity: an exploration of simultaneous pen + touch direct input" discussed a research project by the Microsoft Research group. Basically, this new technology used a "table" called the Microsoft Surface. The software that is run on this would be the Deskterity. This revolutionary software actually allows for not only pen-driven inputs but also the input of a human hand. This technology allows for users to hand scale items, translate them, and other various movements that have been able to be performed by a pen-driven system for a few years now. Discussion I really enjoyed reading this article because of the advancement made by this team of researchers. It seems like such a simple task, but in reality it probably took some really smart people to develop this Deskterity software. These researchers did a very good job at realizing that touch-screen is the new technology that everybody seems to be moving to. I liked how they decided not to take away the functionality of the light pen and simply added the hand driven functionality. This also shows great computer human interaction research. | |||||||||
I agree, the researchers at Microsoft are really doing a great job with this project. It's exciting to see the foundations of a new interaction method being made.
ReplyDeleteI agree that this project presented great HCI research, even just by fact that they decided to base the system's interactions off of research of how people would carry out interactions with physical objects in the same circumstances.
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