TR2004-022

Release, Relocate, Reorient, Resize: Fluid Techniques for Document Sharing on Multi-User Interactive Tables
Citation: Ringel, M.; Ryall, K.; Shen, C.; Forlines, C.; Vernier, F., "Release, Relocate, Reorient, Resize: Fluid Techniques for Document Sharing on Multi-User Interactive Tables", ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), ISBN: 1 58113 703 6, pp. 1441-1444, April 2004 (ACM Press)
Date:April 2004
MERL Contact:Clifton Forlines

Group work frequently involves transitions between periods of active collaboration and periods of individual activity. We aim to support this typical work practice by introducing four tabletop direct-manipulation interaction techniques that can be used to transition the status of an electronic document from private to group-accessible. After presenting our four techniques - release, relocate, reorient, and resize - we discuss the results of an empirical study that compares and evaluates these mechanisms for sharing documents in a co-lcoated tabletop environment.

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