Method for displaying and managing communication-type interaction symbols and associated viewing device with a touch surface

Communications system including at least one associated viewing device comprising a touch surface and controlling, managing and displaying means, said communications system comprising electronic and digital means for implementing a method for managing graphical interactors allowing at least communications functions to be carried out, wherein:

• the interactor comprises three states that are a passive state characteristic of an absence of communication and represented by a first symbol, an active state characteristic of an established communication and represented by a second symbol and a setting state allowing one of the parameters of the communication to be set;
• and
• said displaying and managing method comprises at least the following operations to apply a setting:
• operation 1:
• on a first tactile stress, causing an interaction zone of oblong shape to appear and an icon representative of the possible setting chokes to appear in the vicinity of the first or second symbol;
• operation 2:
• by holding and moving the tactile stress in the direction of the length of the interaction zone in said zone or outside said zone, selecting a given setting;
• and
• operation 3:
• by stopping the tactile stress, validating the new setting and causing the interaction zone to disappear.