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SnapRail: a tabletop user interface widget for addressing occlusion by physical objects

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Genki Furumi,

Daisuke Sakamoto,

Takeo IgarashiAuthors Info & Claims

ITS '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces

Pages 193 - 196

https://doi.org/10.1145/2396636.2396666

Published: 11 November 2012 Publication History

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The screen of a tabletop computer is often occluded by physical objects such as coffee cups. This makes it difficult to see the virtual elements under the physical objects (visibility) and manipulate them (manipulability). Here we present a user interface widget, called "SnapRail," to address these problems, especially occlusion of a manipulable collection of virtual discrete elements such as icons. SnapRail detects a physical object on the surface and the virtual elements under the object. It then snaps the virtual elements to a rail widget that appears around the object. The user can then manipulate the virtual elements along the rail widget. We conducted a preliminary user study to evaluate the potential of this interface and collect initial feedback. The SnapRail interface received positive feedback from participants of the user study.

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ITS '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces

November 2012

430 pages

ISBN:9781450312097

DOI:10.1145/2396636

General Chairs:
Orit Shaer
Wellesley College, USA
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Chia Shen
Harvard University, USA
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Meredith Ringel Morris
Microsoft Research, USA
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Michael Horn
Northwestern University, USA

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