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

Makio ISHIHARA  Yukio ISHIHARA  

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E100-D   No.6   pp.1271-1279
Publication Date: 2017/06/01
Publicized: 2017/03/16
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
DOI: 10.1587/transinf.2016EDP7331
Type of Manuscript: PAPER
Category: Human-computer Interaction
Keyword: 
shadow cursor,  screen coordinates calibration,  tabletop display,  interaction design,  

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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.