Task-Based Focus and AdHoc-Focus-Territory: Novel Concepts for Shared Interactive Surfaces Late-Breaking Works: Collaborative Technologies / Fetter, Mirko / Bimamisa, David / Gross, Tom Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2016-05-07 v.2 p.1193-1200
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Summary: Shared Interactive Surfaces allow co-located users to collaboratively work on a task. As current technology often is not able to distinguish between different users, there is a potential for concurrent conflicting actions of multiple users, leading to unwanted results and accordingly frustration. With our concepts for Task-Based Focus and AdHoc-Focus-Territory we provide light-weight solutions Integrated in our toolkit TUIOFX -- for designers of multi-user, multi-touch applications. Our solution helps to overcome some of the problems of anonymous touch input, without an immediate need for more heavy-weight mechanisms like user identification.