An Evaluation of Multiple Pointing Input Systems

Abstract: Multiple Pointing Input System(MPIS) allows concurrent manipulation of multiple pointing devices, and is targeted as a generic input system. This paper reports on an experimental evaluation on our MPIS prototype system. The system allows concurrent manipulation of multiple pointing devices. The experiment has subjects sort 8 objects on the screen in displayed order. We found that concurrent manipulation with more than 2 devices was less effective. In addition, we found that the difference between the result of generic devices and specialized devices was small