Titel: A multi-touch table interface for interaction with molecule visualisations Instituut: University of Twente (HMI) Plaats: Enschede Land: Nederland Begindatum: nog niet vastgesteld Voltooid: Ja Begeleider: Paul van der Vet Onderwerpen: Multimodal Interactions

Beschrijving:

If a group of bioinformaticians wants to examine a molecule visualization, a PC is not the most effective tool for the job. A better solution is to use a multi-touch table, where people can stand around without occluding each others' vision of the screen. The goal of this graduation thesis is to design, implement and test an interface for the multi-touch table to examine molecule visualizations with multiple persons. Building on earlier work from my Capita Selecta, I will implement the gestures for the direct interaction with the molecule visualizations. This gesture set can then be properly tested with bioinformaticians. If necessary, the gesture set can be corrected or expanded for robustness or extra functionality. The second part of the thesis is to analyse the issue of turn-taking. When multiple people can take control of the molecule visualization at the same time, there are bound to be some collisions of the different interactions. Should a leader be appointed who can decide which participant can interact with the table, or does for instance a first come, first served system work better? Are there interactions that can be performed simultaneously? A third research direction is to find out if there needs to be more information besides a molecule visualization on the screen. How should text be handled, if there are people on all sides of the table? What kind of extra information is useful to be displayed? A survey among bioinformaticians is needed to find out these things. Capita Selectaopdracht Titel: Interaction with molecule visualizations on a multitouch table Instituut: University of Twente (HMI) Plaats: Enschede Land: Nederland Begindatum: 01-09-2008 Voltooid: Ja Verslag: http://hmi.ewi.utwente.nl/verslagen/capita-selecta/CS-Logtenberg-Jeroen.pdf Begeleider: Paul van der Vet Onderwerpen: Information Engineering Beschrijving: In modern day research, biologists analyze the molecular structures of proteins to find out valuable information about the causes and workings of diseases. The designers of the e-BioLab of the BioRange project want to enable biologists to analyze and interact with visualizations of these molecules using a multitouch table. In this assignment, the interaction possibilities with the molecule visualizations are researched. Based on the ideas and wishes of the biologists, existing multitouch interactions have to be analyzed to determine whether they remain effective when used with molecule visualizations.