Indirect Multi-Touch Interaction for Brushing in Parallel Coordinates from Robert Kosara on Vimeo.

Robert Kosara was inspired by the clever multi-touch capabilities of his new Macbook pro, and found a great use for it when dealing with selections in Parallel Coordinates graphs.  While writing a paper for an upcoming conference about it, he was unable to include graphics so instead linked to a video he squirreled away on Vimeo.  Now that video is getting some attention (before the paper was printed), and he’s taken the opportunity to talk about it on his site.

If you’ve used a MacBook or MacBook Pro, you know how simple and intuitive the two-finger scrolling is. Similarly, there are some interactions on the iPhone that are so obvious (like the pinch for zooming) that it’s tough to remember how we did things before touch screens. I wanted to create a similar experience for brushing in parallel coordinates.

He also released a tiny demo app to show how it works, available at his site to try.

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