%0 Generic %D 2007 %T “Direct-Touch vs. Mouse Input for Tabletop Displays” %A Forlines, C. %A Wigdor, D. %A Shen, C. %A Balakrishnan, R. %X We investigate the differences – in terms of both quantitative performance and subjective preference – between direct-touch and mouse input for unimanual and bimanual tasks on tabletop displays. The results of two experiments show that for bimanual tasks performed on tabletops, users benefit from direct-touch input. However, our results also indicate that mouse input may be moreappropriate for a single user working on tabletop tasks requiring only single-point interaction. %B Proceedings of the 2007 ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'07) %C San Jose, CA %G eng