Authors:
Ombretta Gaggi
1
and
Marco Regazzo
2
Affiliations:
1
University of Padua, Italy
;
2
Anyt1me S.r.L., Italy
Keyword(s):
Tabletop Applications, Touch Interfaces, Webkit Engine.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Internet Technology
;
Multimedia and User Interfaces
;
Personalized Web Sites and Services
;
Web Information Systems and Technologies
;
Web Interfaces and Applications
;
Web Programming
;
Web Services and Web Engineering
Abstract:
The number and types of applications developed for multi-touch tabletops are dramatically increased in the last years, mainly due to the fact that interactive tabletops allow a more natural interaction with the user through their multi-touch interfaces. Despite many applications share a big set of common features, e.g., gestures recognition, interface orientation, etc., almost all applications implement their home made software solutions.
In this paper we present Tactive, a software layer for fast development of portable applications for multi-touch interactive tabletops. Tactive allows to abstract from hardware and software equipment and to embed a web application into a application for multi-touch surfaces. Our framework supports up to five fingers gestures recognition and communication between different windows, and allows to save more than 60% of developing time.