Localizing Audiences' Gaze using a Multi-touch Electronic Whiteboard with sPieMenu [article]

Kazutaka Kurihara, Naoshi Nagano, Yuta Watanabe, Yuichi Fujimura, Akinori Minaduki, Hidehiko Hayashi, Yohei Tsuchiya
2010 arXiv   pre-print
Direct-touch presentation devices such as touch-sensitive electronic whiteboards have two serious problems. First, the presenter's hand movements tend to distract the audience's attention from content. Second, the presenter' s manipulation tends to obscure content. In this paper we describe a new electronic whiteboard system that supports multi-touch gestures and employs a special pie menu interface named "sPieMenu." This pie menu is displayed under the presenter's palm and is thus invisible to
more » ... the audience. A series of experiments shows that the proposed system allows both novice and expert users to efficiently manipulate the electronic whiteboard, and that the proposed system decreases distraction to the audience compared to traditional approaches.
arXiv:1012.1671v1 fatcat:nedjrwrfljc4blpw74an4whmyi