Beyond Tables: New Directions in Spatial Interaction
Abstract
Work on interactive tabletops and surfaces has focused mostly on two-dimensional issues, such as multi-finger gestures and tangible interaction in (mostly) horizontal settings. Interesting as it is however, this picture is missing several dimensions. I will describe work on both horizontal and vertical surfaces and present novel on-and-above-the-surface techniques based on bi-manual models to take advantage of the continuous interaction space for manipulations in 2D and 3D environments. I will also discuss means to allow for more expressive interactions, including novel uses of sound and combining hand and finger tracking in the space above the table with multitouch gestures as well as novel interaction contexts, such as vertical surfaces, two-sided displays and mobile settings. These combinations can provide alternative design environments and allow novel interaction modalities.
SpeakerProf. Joaquim Jorge | |
Date & Time31 Oct 2014 (Friday) 16:00 - 17:00 | |
VenueE11 - 4045 (University of Macau) | |
Organized byDepartment of Computer and Information Science |
Biography
Joaquim Jorge is a Professor at Instituto Superior Técnico, the School of Engineering of the University of Lisboa, Portugal, where he teaches User Interfaces and Computer Graphics. He received PhD and MSc degrees in Computer Science from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, in 1995. He is Editor in Chief of Computers & Graphics Journal and a member of the ERCIM Editorial Board. He was Portuguese national representative to IFIP´s TC13 (Human Computer Interaction) from 2001-2013. He is currently the ACM/SIGGRAPH Small Conferences Committee Chair. Joaquim Jorge's interests are in Calligraphic and Multimodal User Interfaces, Visual Languages and Pattern Recognition techniques applied to Human-Computer Interaction where he has published over 200 papers in International Peer-Reviewed Venues and served on the International Program Committees of over 160 Scientific Conferences. A senior member of ACM and IEEE, he was elected Fellow of the Eurographics Association in 2010 and received IFIP Silver Core Award in 2014.