| Summary | Using the gesture normally associated with zooming, but across two devices, Pinch stitches two screens together in a single workspace. |
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| Description | Ohta and Tanaka describe a technique for stitching content shown on 2 mobile devices. This is achieved by placing the devices together by the long side and making a pinch gesture across both displays until the images meet. This results in an image being shown across 2 devices that form a larger screen area. |
| Design motivation | Designing new types of interactions |
| Design goal | Creating integrated workspaces, Improving information management across devices, Supporting design of interfaces for dynamic collections of devices, Supporting joint interaction with information across devices |
| Device type | Private |
| Enabling technology | Displays, Networking technologies |
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| Reference | Ohta, T., & Tanaka, J. (2012). Pinch: an interface that relates applications on
multiple touch-screen by ‘pinching’ gesture. In Advances in Computer Entertainment (pp. 320-335). Springer Berlin Heidelberg. |
| Pattern family | Display Grouping |
| Cites | ConnecTable, Bumping, Stitching |
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| Related to | ConnecTable, Bumping, Stitching, Throwing (MobiComics), Send-to-Me, Retrieving, Voting |
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DUI Patterns