TouchTools : Leveraging familiarity and skill with physical tools to augment touch interaction, FIG, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

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Designer - Future Interfaces Group (FIG)

Home page - figlab.com/#/touchtools

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Published on Apr 28, 2014

Gestures on today's touch devices are simplistic, solely relying on the number of fingers (1-finger pan, 2-finger zoom, 3-finger swipe, etc). We propose instead that gesture design be inspired by the manipulation of real world artifacts -- specifically tools. The result is a set of rich gestures for touch interaction that leverages user familiarity and fluency with real world objects.