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2010
Conference Paper
Titel
Design patterns for multitouch-TUIs
Abstract
Multitouch technologies have an intense effect on human-computer interfaces today. Nevertheless, the touch interaction, which characterizes the user interface, provides a less haptic way of interaction compared to mouse and keyboard operated interfaces. Regarding this, multitouch systems benefit from a combination with Tangible User Interfaces (TUIs) compared to just the gestural interaction. There are several prototype systems which follow this approach, but no descriptions of general interaction patterns for such TUIs on multitouch devices. This document presents the design patterns Shadow, Dockable and Peripheral Extension which describe general patterns for developers to conceive interaction concepts for multitouch TUIs.