Model-Based Multi-touch Gesture Interaction for Diagram Editors

摘要

Many of todays software development processes include model-driven engineering techniques. They employ domain models, i.e. formal representations of knowledge about an application domain, to enable the automatic generation of parts of a software system. Tools supporting model-driven engineering for software development today are often desktop-based single user systems. In practice though, the design of components or larger systems often still is conducted on whiteboards or flip charts. Our work focuses on interaction techniques allowing for the development of gesture-based diagram editors that support teams in establishing domain models from a given meta-model during the development process. Users or groups of users are enabled to instantiate meta-models by free-hand or pen-based sketching of components on large multi-touch screens. In contrast to previous work, the description of multi-touch gestures is derived directly from the graphical model representing the data.