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The Pie Slider: Combining Advantages of the Real and the Virtual Space

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Smart Graphics (SG 2009)

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The Pie Segment Slider is a novel parameter control interface combining the advantages of tangible input with the customizability of a graphical interface representation. The physical part of the interface consists of a round touchpad, which serves as an appropriate sensor for manipulating ring-shaped sliders arranged around a virtual object. The novel interface concept allows to shift a substantial amount of interaction task time from task preparation to its exploratory execution. Our user study compared the task performance of the novel interface to a common touchpad-operated GUI and examined the task sequences of both solutions. The results confirm the benefits of exploiting tangible input and proprioception for operating graphical user interface elements.

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  1. Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Spain

    Alexander Kulik, André Kunert, Christopher Lux & Bernd Fröhlich

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  1. Institut für Informatik, LFE Medieninformatik, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, Amalienstrs 17, 80333, München, Germany

    Andreas Butz

  2. Simon Fraser University at Surrey, 13450 102 Avenue, BC V3T 5X3, Surrey, Canada

    Brian Fisher

  3. Equipe BUNRAKU, Maître de Conférences – Détaché à l’INRIA Rennes, IRISA-INRIA Rennes, Campus de Beaulieu, 35042, Rennes Cedex, France

    Marc Christie

  4. Institute for Geoinformatics, Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Robert-Koch-Str. 26-28, 48149, Münster, Germany

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  5. School of Computing Science, Culture Lab, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, United Kingdom

    Patrick Olivier

  6. Departamento de Informática y Automática, Universidad de Salamanca, 37008, Salamanca, Espana, Spain

    Roberto Therón

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Kulik, A., Kunert, A., Lux, C., Fröhlich, B. (2009). The Pie Slider: Combining Advantages of the Real and the Virtual Space. In: Butz, A., Fisher, B., Christie, M., Krüger, A., Olivier, P., Therón, R. (eds) Smart Graphics. SG 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5531. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02115-2_8

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