Multi-touch Multi-user Interactive Control System Using Mobile Devices

Abstract

The penetration of multi-touch devices have created a new generation of users comfortable with the gestures associated with such devices. Developers have already embraced such trends by capturing and handling them in their applications. We propose a novel approach to use mobile devices as system controls for applications. Unlike existing approaches, our solution has three key features. First, it is flexible to customize for different applications. Second, it allows multiple users to interact with the application as well as to interact with each other. Third, it fully supports multi-touch and user-defined gestures. The feasibility of our solution is demonstrated through the implementation test we have made for web applications.