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Grids & guides: multi-touch layout and alignment tools

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Precise alignment of graphical objects and the creation of accurate layouts are crucial activities in many applications, such as graphics design tools, presentation software or graph editors. Surface computing is very promising for these application domains but not fully explored yet. In this paper we contribute two tools which support layout tasks on interactive displays: interactive grids and multi-touch alignment guides. Both tools allow the precise positioning of graphical objects in a flexible and fluent way by multi-touch input. Direct bimanual interaction and physical metaphors are applied to arrange objects along straight lines and curves. A formative user evaluation showed promising results with regard to a productive and easy use of the tools.

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    CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    May 2011
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    DOI:10.1145/1978942
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    1. interactive grids
    2. layout techniques
    3. manual diagram layout
    4. multi-touch alignment guides
    5. snap-dragging

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