Evaluating Finger Orientation for Position Awareness on Multi-Touch Tabletop Systems

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dc.contributor.authorZhang, Hong
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeEskicioglu, Rasit (Computer Science) Hossain, Ekram (Electrical and Computer Engineering)en_US
dc.contributor.supervisorIrani, Pourang (Computer Science)en_US
dc.date.accessioned2012-04-03T13:30:37Z
dc.date.available2012-04-03T13:30:37Z
dc.date.issued2012-05-09
dc.degree.disciplineComputer Scienceen_US
dc.degree.levelMaster of Science (M.Sc.)en_US
dc.description.abstractInteractive tabletop systems are becoming popular platforms for group activities. However, current common tabletops do not provide capabilities to differentiate interactions among simultaneous users, i.e. to associate a touch point with its proper owner. My thesis proposes and explores the use of an important biometric property of users as the basis for touch discrimination on multi-user tabletops: Finger Orientation (FO). In this thesis, I first collect the FO ranges of users standing in different positions around a tabletop. Second, I implement a system that uses FO to determine where the users are standing, and based on that extrapolate the owner of the touch. Next, I evaluate the system with two separate experiments, present the results, and discuss all findings. Furthermore, I explore some enhancements with a simple quantitative study. My results indicate that finger orientation is a good natural biometric trait enhances multi-user recognition on tabletops.en_US
dc.description.noteMay 2012en_US
dc.identifier.citationHong Zhang, Xing-Dong Yang, Barrett Ens, Hai-Ning Liang, Pierre Boulanger, Pourang Irani. See Me, See You: A Lightweight Method for Discriminating User Touches on Tabletop Displays In CHI 2012, May 5-10, 2012, Austin, TX, USA.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/5232
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.publisherACMen_US
dc.rightsopen accessen_US
dc.subjectMulti-touch tabletopen_US
dc.subjectTouch Discriminationen_US
dc.subjectHuman-Computer Interactionen_US
dc.subjectFinger Orientationen_US
dc.titleEvaluating Finger Orientation for Position Awareness on Multi-Touch Tabletop Systemsen_US
dc.typemaster thesisen_US
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