Xerox Corporation

Gregory Bauduin

Victor Ciriza

Yves Hoppenot

Jean-Michel Renders

Caroline Privault

Jacki O'Neill

Ana Fucs

Grégoire Gerard

Ye Deng

Mathieu Knibiehly

A computer implemented tactile user interface (TUI) and a method of manipulating objects with a virtual magnet are provided. The TUI includes a display comprising a touch-screen. The display is configured for displaying a set of graphic objects, each graphic object representing a respective one of a set of items, such as documents, e.g., text documents or images. A virtual magnet is caused to move on the display, in response to touching on the touch-screen, e.g., by dragging a finger or other implement across. The magnet is associated with a particular function command such that a subset of the graphic objects exhibits a response to the virtual magnet (e.g., is caused to move, relative to the virtual magnet or exhibits another visible response), each graphic object in the subset moving or otherwise responding as a function of an attribute of the underlying item represented by the graphic object.

Manipulation of displayed objects by virtual magnetism

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Echirolles, France

Gregory Bauduin