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Design Interaction via Multi-touch

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We present a multi-touch-tabletop tool for design-collaborations and -communication tasks employing three-dimensional digitalized models. Our system allows users from various disciplines to communicate and share their ideas by manipulating the reference and their own input simultaneously by simply using intuitive gestures. Haptic and proprioceptive perception of tangible representations are perceived and understood more readily whereby our system provides an increased potential to compensate for the low spatial cognition of its users. Our integration of combining both model-based and participatory approaches with multi-touch tabletop system setups differs considerably from conventional visual representations for collaborative design. Since the multi-touch design interaction allows users to engage intuitively within virtual design environments, it is presenting a next generation of common graphical user interfaces.

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Schnabel, M.A., Chen, R.(. (2011). Design Interaction via Multi-touch. In: Luo, Y. (eds) Cooperative Design, Visualization, and Engineering. CDVE 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6874. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23734-8_3

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