DTLens: multi-user tabletop spatial data exploration

Supporting groups of individuals exploring large maps and design diagrams on interactive tabletops is still 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, multiuser, 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. ACM Classification: H5.2 [Information interfaces and presentation]: User Interfaces. - Graphical user interfaces. General terms: Design, Human Factors

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2005
• Where: UIST
• Authors: Clifton Forlines, Chia Shen
• Keywords: Interactive Tabletop, Spatial Data, UIST 2005, User Interfaces