Papers by Maneesh Agrawala


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Determining the Benefits of Direct-Touch, Bimanual, and Multifinger Input on a Multitouch Workstation

Kenrick Kin, Maneesh Agrawala, Tony DeRose
May 2009

Multitouch workstations support direct-touch, bimanual, and multifinger interaction. Previous studies have separately examined the benefits of these three interaction attributes over mouse-based interactions. In contrast, we present an empirical user study that considers these three interaction attributes together for a single task, such that we can quantify and compare the performances of each attribute. In our ... more

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To appear in Graphics Interface 2009


Eden: A Professional Multitouch Tool for Constructing Virtual Organic Environments

Kenrick Kin, Tom Miller, Bjoern Bollensdorff, Tony DeRose, Bjoern Hartmann, Maneesh Agrawala
January 2011

Set construction is the process of selecting and positioning virtual geometric objects to create a virtual environment used in a computer-animated film. Set construction artists often have a clear mental image of the set composition, but find it tedious to build their intended sets with current mouse and keyboard interfaces. We investigate whether multitouch input can ... more

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To appear in the proceedings of SIGCHI 2011

Available as Pixar Technical Memo #11-04


Proton: Multitouch Gestures as Regular Expressions

Kenrick Kin, Bjoern Hartmann, Tony DeRose, Maneesh Agrawala
January 2012

Current multitouch frameworks require application developers to write recognition code for custom gestures; this code is split across multiple event-handling callbacks. As the number of custom gestures grows it becomes increasingly difficult to 1) know if new gestures will conflict with existing gestures, and 2) know how to extend existing ... more

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To appear in CHI 2012

Available as Pixar Technical Memo #12-02