Design and implementation of the double mouse system for a Window environment

Abstract

Recently, due to remarkable advancements of computer technology, multiple applications can be simultaneously run on a single computer. These applications commonly use a mouse as an input device. However, with a single mouse, we can only input two-dimensional coordinates and press mouse buttons for input. Therefore, this conventional input method using a single mouse handled by one hand is not sufficient to support complex or parallel operations in sophisticated applications. On the other hand, it is widely recognized that using two different input devices handled by two hands is useful for complex operations. In this paper, we show our design and implementation of a multipurpose interface which integrates two mice as input device for window system.