Paper Info
Title
Determining the benefits of direct-touch, bimanual, and multifinger input on a multitouch workstation
Abstract
Multitouch workstations support direct-touch, bimanual, and multifinger interaction. Previous studies have separately examined the benefits of these three interaction attributes over mouse-based interactions. In contrast, we present an empirical user study that considers these three interaction attributes together for a single task, such that we can quantify and compare the performances of each attribute. In our experiment users select multiple targets using either a mouse-based workstation equipped with one mouse, or a multitouch workstation using either one finger, two fingers (one from each hand), or multiple fingers. We find that the fastest multitouch condition is about twice as fast as the mouse-based workstation, independent of the number of targets. Direct-touch with one finger accounts for an average of 83% of the reduction in selection time. Bimanual interaction, using at least two fingers, one on each hand, accounts for the remaining reduction in selection time. Further, we find that for novice multitouch users there is no significant difference in selection time between using one finger on each hand and using any number of fingers for this task. Based on these observations we conclude with several design guidelines for developing multitouch user interfaces.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2009
Graphics Interface 2012
mouse-based interaction,multifinger interaction,bimanual interaction,selection time,multifinger input,multitouch user interface,fastest multitouch condition,interaction attribute,mouse-based workstation,multitouch workstation,novice multitouch user,user interface
Field
DocType
Citations 
Direct touch,Computer science,Workstation,Human–computer interaction,User interface
Conference
61
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.97
24
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Kenrick Kin12067.45
Maneesh Agrawala25192333.08
Tony DeRose31152136.22