HCI - Multi touch interaction - UHasselt

One of the challenges of multi-touch interactive systems is to make interaction intuitive, and to target beyond the “scale-rotate-move” interactions. We investigate several techniques to make these interactions, as well as explanations of these interactions to the user, as intuitive as possible. Another challenge is scalability of interaction techniques with the characteristics of the interactive system (e.g. to multiple users and multiple synchronized and distributed displays). In our projects and research we address these issues both on a fundamental level and for specific cases in domains such as education (e.g. MuTable), media production (e.g. PISA), media search (e.g. AMASS++), art (Creating Spaces II) and intelligent meeting environments (iConnect) and ambient 3D environments (e.g. Hi-Masquerade).
The research in this research line has lead to the spin-off company TinkerTouch.

Key projects:

• IBBT GBO :  MuTable, Hi-Masquerade, Teleclassing, iConnect
• IBBT ISBO : PISA
• EFRO : Creating Spaces II
• IWT SBO : AMASS++

Key publications:

• Multi-User Multi-Touch Setups for Together Learning in an Educational Setting,
  Jan Schneider Barnes, Jan Derboven, Kris Luyten, Chris Vleugels, Stijn Bannier, Dries De Roeck, Mathijs Verstraete, The 7th International Conference on Cooperative Design, Visualization and Engineering (CDVE 2010), Mallorca, Spain, September 19-22, 2010
• Ghosts in the Interface: Meta-user Interface Visualizations as Guides for Multi-touch Interaction, Davy Vanacken, Alexandre Demeure, Kris Luyten and Karin Coninx, IEEE Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces 2008, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 2-3, 2008
• Eunomia: Toward a Framework for Multi-touch Information Displays in Public Spaces, Tom Cuypers, Jan Schneider, Johannes Taelman, Kris Luyten and Philippe Bekaert, HCI 2008: the 22nd British HCI Conference, Liverpool, UK, September 1-5, 2008