TR2004-005
DiamondSpin: An Extensible Toolkit for Around-the-Table Interaction
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- "DiamondSpin: An Extensible Toolkit for Around-the-Table Interaction", ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2004, pp. 167-174.BibTeX TR2004-005 PDF
- @inproceedings{Shen2004apr,
- author = {Shen, C. and Vernier, F.D. and Forlines, C. and Ringel, M.},
- title = {{DiamondSpin: An Extensible Toolkit for Around-the-Table Interaction}},
- booktitle = {ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)},
- year = 2004,
- pages = {167--174},
- month = apr,
- isbn = {1-58113-702-8},
- url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2004-005}
- }
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- "DiamondSpin: An Extensible Toolkit for Around-the-Table Interaction", ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), April 2004, pp. 167-174.
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Research Area:
Human-Computer Interaction
Abstract:
DiamondSpin is a toolkit for the efficient prototyping of and experimentation with multi-person, concurrent intefaces for interactive shared displays. In this paper, we identify the fundamental functionality that tabletop user interfaces should embody, then present the toolkit's architecture and API. DiamondSpin provides a novel real-time polar to Cartesian transformation engine that has enabled new, around-the-talbe interaction metaphors to be implemented. DiamondSpin allows arbitrary document positioning and orientation on a tabletop surface. Polygonal tabletop layouts such as rectangular, octagonal, and circular tabletops can easily be constructed. DiamondSpin also supports multiple work areas within the same digital tabletop. Multi-user operations are offered through multi-threaded input event streams, multiple active objects, and multiple concurrent menus. We also discuss insights on tabletop interaction issues we have observed from a set of applications built with DiamondSpin
Related News & Events
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NEWS CHI 2004: 2 publications by Chia Shen, Kathy Ryall, Clifton Forlines and others Date: April 25, 2004
Where: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)Brief- The papers "DiamondSpin: An Extensible Toolkit for Around-the-Table Interaction" by Shen, C., Vernier, F.D., Forlines, C. and Ringel, M. and "Release, Relocate, Reorient, Resize: Fluid Techniques for Document Sharing on Multi-User Interactive Tables" by Ringel, M., Ryall, K., Shen, C., Forlines, C. and Vernier, F. were presented at the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI).