On the one hand, multitouch tactile interfaces offer many advantages and are more and more widespread. Their use as 3D application interfaces are rather limited though, since they offer large horizontal flat projection surfaces that are not suited to many kinds of 3D operations. On the other hand, despite the many propositions that have been made over the past years, no single interface has proven to tackle the numerous specificities related to the 3D interaction constraints. Through the CubTile device proposal, our preliminary work tries to bring the strengths related to multitouch tactile surfaces into a device aimed at 3D interactions. Consisting in a medium-sized cube where 5 out of 6 sides are multitouch, our prototype senses several fingers, offers interaction redundancy and lets a user handle 3D manipulation thanks to single handed and bimanual input.
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