Cross-platform data visualizations using common descriptions

A computer program product for use at a computer system, the computer program product for implementing a method for processing an input gesture, the computer program product comprising one or more computer storage devices having stored thereon computer-executable instructions that, in response to execution at a processor, cause the computer system to perform the method, including the following

• access a generic scene graph, the generic scene graph defining behaviors for input gesture processing independent of any of a plurality of different platform specific sub-systems, the generic scene graph containing scene graph metadata that describes characteristics of the behaviors;
• receive input gesture data from a specified platform specific sub-system, the specified platform specific sub-system selected from among the plurality of different platform specific sub-systems;
• recognize an input gesture corresponding to the input gesture data by utilizing a gesture recognition technique available to the specified platform specific sub-system;
• adjust the input gesture data for consistency with the generic scene graph based on the utilized gesture recognition technique and in view of the scene graph metadata;
• and
• route the adjusted input gesture data to an appropriate behavior in the generic scene graph.

A computer system, the computer system comprising:

• one or more processors;
• system memory;
• one or more components of a specific technology platform;
• one or more computer storage devices having stored thereon computer-executable instructions representing a scene graph processing layer, the scene graph processing layer configured to:
• access a generic scene graph, the generic scene graph defining behaviors for input gesture processing independent of any of a plurality of different platform specific sub-systems, including the specific technology platform, the generic scene graph containing scene graph metadata that describes characteristics of the behaviors;
• receive input gesture data from the specific technology platform;
• recognize an input gesture corresponding to the input gesture data by utilizing a gesture recognition technique available to the specific technology platform;
• adjust the input gesture data for consistency with the generic scene graph based on the utilized gesture recognition technique and in view of the scene graph metadata;
• and
• route the adjusted input gesture data to an appropriate behavior in the generic scene graph.