Poker Surface: Combining Mobile Phones and a Multi-Touch Surface in Interactive Card Games
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Conceptually, based on interactions in traditional card games, our poker game application explores different natural ways of interaction, including touching the table as well as tilting, throwing, and shaking a mobile phone. By translating traditional gestures into the digital domain, we provide a use case to discuss useful gestures combing mobile phones with tabletop surfaces, as well as to explore a private-public display setting for digital card games at interactive tables. Additionally, the mobile phone provides the tangible feeling similar to physical cards. The preliminary user study showed that users preferred using mobile phones for interaction compared with direct interaction on multi-touch table. Further information can be find in doi.acm.org . The project is done in Pervasive Computing and User Interface Engineering group at University of Duisburg Essen (www.pervasive.wiwi.uni-due.de
