Touchpad Mapper

Demo for ASSETS 2024

Contexts of Use

  • Image
  • Video

Using the touchpad to control a video slider (Context 1).

Figure 1: (Left) Gesture swiping left and right on the touchpad. (Right) Gestures swiping left and right controls the video timeline.

System diagram of Touchpad Mapper

Figure 2: System diagram of Touchpad Mapper showing a flowchart starting with a touchpad image transmitting touch coordinates to our MacOS App. MacOS then sends this data to the backend server, which broadcasts this data via Web Socket to the Web Browser. The browser script performs necessary operations on the web page element, which is then received by the user.