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TouchCuts and TouchZoom: enhanced target selection for touch displays using finger proximity sensing

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Xing-Dong Yang,

George FitzmauriceAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2585 - 2594

https://doi.org/10.1145/1978942.1979319

Published: 07 May 2011 Publication History

Abstract

Although touch-screen laptops are increasing in popularity, users still do not comfortably rely on touch in these environments, as current software interfaces were not designed for being used by the finger. In this paper, we first demonstrate the benefits of using touch as a complementary input modality along with the keyboard and mouse or touchpad in a laptop setting. To alleviate the frustration users experience with touch, we then design two techniques, TouchCuts, a single target expansion technique, and,i>TouchZoom,/i>, a multiple target expansion technique. Both techniques facilitate the selection of small icons, by detecting the finger proximity above the display surface, and expanding the target as the finger approaches. In a controlled evaluation, we show that our techniques improve performance in comparison to both the computer mouse and a baseline touch-based target acquisition technique. We conclude by discussing other application scenarios that our techniques support.

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TouchCuts and TouchZoom: enhanced target selection for touch displays using finger proximity sensing
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms

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CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

May 2011

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ISBN:9781450302289

DOI:10.1145/1978942

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Microsoft Research
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Vienna University of Technology
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University of Saskatchewan
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PARC
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