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Fix and Slide: Caret Navigation with Movable Background

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Kenji Suzuki,

Kazumasa Okabe,

Ryuuki Sakamoto,

Daisuke SakamotoAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '15 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology

Pages 79 - 80

https://doi.org/10.1145/2815585.2815728

Published: 06 November 2015 Publication History

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We present a ?Fix and Slide? technique, which is a concept to use a movable background to place a caret insertion point and to select text on a mobile device. Standard approach to select text on the mobile devices is touching to the text where a user wants to select, and sometimes pop-up menu is displayed and s/he choose ?select? mode and then start to specify an area to be selected. A big problem is that the user?s finger hides the area to select; this is called a "fat finger problem." We use the movable background to navigate a caret. First a user places a caret by tapping on a screen and then moves the background by touching and dragging on a screen. In this situation, the caret is fixed on the screen so that the user can move the background to navigate the caret where the user wants to move the caret. We implement the Fix and Slide technique on iOS device (iPhone) to demonstrate the impact of this text selection technique on small mobile devices.

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1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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UIST '15 Adjunct: Adjunct Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology

November 2015

124 pages

ISBN:9781450337809

DOI:10.1145/2815585

General Chair:
Celine Latulipe
UNC Charlotte, USA
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Bjoern Hartmann
UC Berkeley, USA
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Tovi Grossman
Autodesk Research, Canada

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