Programming for Multiple Touches and Multiple Users: A Toolkit for the DiamondTouch Hardware

Diaz-Marino, R.A., Tse, E. and Greenberg, S. (2003)
Programming for Multiple Touches and Multiple Users: A Toolkit for the DiamondTouch Hardware. In Companion Proceedings of ACM Conference on User Interface Software and Technology - ACM UIST'03. 2-page paper plus poster.

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Abstract

The MERL DiamondTouch is an input device that detects multiple simultaneous touches by multiple people on a surface. While MERL has produced an SDK for this surface, many lines of complicated code must be written to produce even the most basic applications. Consequently, we have created a DiamondTouch extension within our Single Display Groupware Toolkit that considerably simplifies how a programmer captures events from the DiamondTouch. We demonstrate how it works by outlining a multi-user, multi-touch drawing application.

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@INPROCEEDINGS { 2003-DiamondTouchDemo.UIST,
CLASS = { POSTER },
AUTHOR = { Diaz-Marino, R.A. and Tse, E. and Greenberg, S. },
TITLE = { Programming for Multiple Touches and Multiple Users: A Toolkit for the DiamondTouch Hardware },
BOOKTITLE = { Companion Proceedings of ACM Conference on User Interface Software and Technology - ACM UIST'03 },
YEAR = { 2003 },
NOTE = { 2-page paper plus poster },
}