Tactive, a Framework for Cross Platform Development of Tabletop Applications

Ombretta Gaggi, Marco Regazzo

2014

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.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Gaggi O. and Regazzo M. (2014). Tactive, a Framework for Cross Platform Development of Tabletop Applications . In Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST, ISBN 978-989-758-024-6, pages 91-98. DOI: 10.5220/0004857800910098

in Bibtex Style

@conference{webist14,
author={Ombretta Gaggi and Marco Regazzo},
title={Tactive, a Framework for Cross Platform Development of Tabletop Applications},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,},
year={2014},
pages={91-98},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004857800910098},
isbn={978-989-758-024-6},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Web Information Systems and Technologies - Volume 2: WEBIST,
TI - Tactive, a Framework for Cross Platform Development of Tabletop Applications
SN - 978-989-758-024-6
AU - Gaggi O.
AU - Regazzo M.
PY - 2014
SP - 91
EP - 98
DO - 10.5220/0004857800910098