Paper Info
Title
TACTUS: A Hardware and Software Testbed for Research in Multi-Touch Interaction
Abstract
This paper presents the TACTUS Multi-Touch Research Testbed, a hardware and software system for enabling research in multi-touch interaction. A detailed discussion is provided on hardware construction, pitfalls, design options, and software architecture to bridge the gaps in the existing literature and inform the researcher on the practical requirements of a multi-touch research testbed. This includes a comprehensive description of the vision-based image processing pipeline, developed for the TACTUS software library, which makes surface interactions available to multi-touch applications. Furthermore, the paper explores the higher-level functionality and utility of the TACTUS software library and how researchers can leverage the system to investigate multi-touch interaction techniques.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-02577-8_57
HCI (2)
Keywords
Field
DocType
software system,hardware construction,multi-touch interaction technique,multi-touch research,multi-touch interaction,tactus multi-touch research testbed,enabling research,software architecture,tactus software library,surface interaction,image processing,interaction technique,software systems
Software design description,Software peer review,Computer science,Software system,Human–computer interaction,Resource-oriented architecture,Software verification and validation,Software construction,Computer hardware,Software development,Social software engineering
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5611
0302-9743
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
8
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Paul Varcholik1462.84
Joseph J. LaViola Jr.22123169.04
Denise M. Nicholson35711.54