Manual Deskterity: An Exploration of Simultaneous Pen + Touch Direct Input

Ken Hinckley¹, Koji Yatani^1,2, Michel Pahud¹, Nicole Coddington³, Jenny Rodenhouse³, Andy Wilson¹, Hrvoje Benko¹, Bill Buxton^1
1Microsoft Research, ²University of Toronto, ³Microsoft Corporation

Manual Deskterity is a prototype digital drafting table that supports both pen and touch input. We explore a division of labor between pen and touch that flows from natural human skill and differentiation of roles of the hands. We also explore the simultaneous use of pen and touch to support novel compound gestures.

Hinckley, K., Yatani, K., Pahud, M., Coddington, N., Rodenhouse, J., Wilson, A., Benko, H., and Buxton, B. 2010. Manual deskterity: an exploration of simultaneous pen + touch direct input. In Proceedings of the 28th of the international Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Atlanta, Georgia, USA, April 10 - 15, 2010).