Direct-Touch vs. Mouse Input for Tabletop Displays
| Citation: |
Forlines, C.; Wigdor, D.; Shen, C.; Balakrishnan, R., "Direct-touch vs. Mouse Input for Tabletop Displays", ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems, ISBN: 978-1-50503-503-9, pp. 647-656, April 2007 (ACM Press) |
| MERL Report: | TR2007-053 |
We investigate the differences - in terms of both quantitative performance and subjective preference - between direct-touch and mouse input for unimanual and bimanual tasks on tabletop displays. The results of two experiments show that for bimanual tasks performed on tabletops, users benefit from direct-touch input. However, our results also indicate that mouse input may be more appropriate for a single user working on tabletop tasks requiring only single-point interaction.
