Towards Multi-Touch Map Interaction on Tabletops: State of the Art and Design Recommendations

Abstract

Since smartphones like the IPhone and larger setups like Microsoft s Surface appeared on the market, the use of multi-touch interaction techniques is wide spread. Multi-touch allows intuitive, easy and fast interaction in principle but highly depends on the application type used. In this paper we present a brief state of the art report in the area of multi-touch and tangible map interaction on tabletops. We figured out design recommendations that we used for our evaluation prototype called MTMap.