A Shadow Cursor for Calibrating Screen Coordinates of Tabletop Displays and Its Evaluation

This paper discusses the use of a common computer mouse as a pointing interface for tabletop displays. In the use of a common computer mouse for tabletop displays, there might be an angular distance between the screen coordinates and the mouse control coordinates. To align those coordinates, this pa...

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Published inIEICE Transactions on Information and Systems Vol. E100.D; no. 6; pp. 1271 - 1279
Main Authors ISHIHARA, Makio, ISHIHARA, Yukio
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Tokyo The Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers 01.01.2017
Japan Science and Technology Agency
Subjects
BASIC (programming language)
Calibration
Cursor control devices
Displays
interaction design
Mouse devices
screen coordinates calibration
shadow cursor
Shadows
tabletop display
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Summary:This paper discusses the use of a common computer mouse as a pointing interface for tabletop displays. In the use of a common computer mouse for tabletop displays, there might be an angular distance between the screen coordinates and the mouse control coordinates. To align those coordinates, this paper introduces a screen coordinates calibration technique using a shadow cursor. A shadow cursor is the basic idea of manipulating a mouse cursor without any visual feedbacks. The shadow cursor plays an important role in obtaining the angular distance between the two coordinates. It enables the user to perform a simple mouse manipulation so that screen coordinates calibration will be completed in less than a second.
ISSN:0916-8532
1745-1361
DOI:10.1587/transinf.2016EDP7331