| DTLens: Multi-user Tabletop Spatial Data Exploration |
| Citation: |
* Forlines, C.; Shen, C., "DTLens: Multi-user Tabletop Spatial Data Exploration", ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), ISBN: 1-59593-271-2, pp. 119-122, October 2005 (ACM Press) |
| Date: | October 2005 |
| MERL Contact: | Clifton Forlines |
Supporting groups of individuals exploring large maps and design diagrams on interactive tabletops is till an open research problem. Today's geospatial, mechanical engineering and CAD design applications are mostly single-user, keyboard and mouse-based desktop applications. In this paper, we present the design of and experience with DTLens, a new zoom-in-context, multi-user, two-handed, multi-lens interaction technique that enables group exploration of spatial data with multiple individual lenses on the same direct-touch interactive tabletop. DTLens provides a set of consistent interactions on lens operations, thus minimizes tool switching by users during spatial data exploration. |
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