Enabling gesture driven content sharing between proximate computing devices

A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having computer usable program code embodied therewith, the computer usable program code comprising:

• computer usable program code stored in a storage medium, if said computer usable program code is processed by a processor it is operable to identify one or more computing devices proximate to a source device, wherein the source device is an end-user device having a touch sensitive surface;
• computer usable program code stored in a storage medium, if said computer usable program code is processed by a processor it is operable to detect a gesture performed on the touch sensitive surface, wherein the gesture indicates a selection of a displayed representation of content and indicates a direction, wherein the gesture is at least one of a touch based gesture, a stylus based gesture, a keyboard based gesture, and a pointing device gesture;
• computer usable program code stored in a storage medium, if said computer usable program code is processed by a processor it is operable to determine a target device or a device proxy that is within line-of-site of a human being that made the gesture and that is in the direction of the gesture;
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• computer usable program code stored in a storage medium, if said computer usable program code is processed by a processor it is operable to programmatically execute an action involving the gesture selected content and the determined target device or device proxy.

A method comprising:

• establishing a system of communicatively linked devices in a spatial region for concurrent use by a human in the spatial region, each of the linked devices having a screen for display to the human, wherein screens used by different ones of the linked devices render content provided from independent content presentation functions;
• detecting a gesture performed by the human on a touch sensitive surface of a first one of the communicatively linked device, wherein the gesture indicates a selection of a displayed representation of content and indicates a direction through movement of a contact object on the touch sensitive surface;
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• responsive to the gesture, conveying over a communication linkage at least a portion of the content to a second one of the communicatively linked devices, wherein the conveyed portion of the content is stored in a memory of the second one of the communicatively linked devices.