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The hold-and-move gesture for multi-touch interfaces

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Alexander Kulik,

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MobileHCI '12: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services

Pages 49 - 58

https://doi.org/10.1145/2371574.2371583

Published: 21 September 2012 Publication History

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We present the two-finger gesture hold-and-move as an alternative to the disruptive long-tap which utilizes dwell times for switching from panning to object dragging mode in touch interfaces. We make use of a second finger for object selection and manipulation while workspace panning is operated with the first finger. Since both operations can be performed simultaneously, the cumbersome and hard-to-control autoscrolling function is no longer needed when dragging an object beyond the currently visible viewport. Single-finger panning and pinch zooming still work as expected. A user study revealed that hold-and-move enables faster object dragging than the conventional dwell-time approach and that it is preferred by most users.

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MobileHCI '12: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services

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