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Arpège: learning multitouch chord gestures vocabularies

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Stéphane Huot,

Michel Beaudouin-Lafon,

Wendy E. MackayAuthors Info & Claims

ITS '13: Proceedings of the 2013 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces

Pages 209 - 218

https://doi.org/10.1145/2512349.2512795

Published: 06 October 2013 Publication History

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This paper presents Arpège, a progressive multitouch input technique for learning chords, as well as a robust recognizer and guidelines for building large chord vocabularies. Experiment one validated our design guidelines and suggests implications for designing vocabularies, i.e. users prefer relaxed to tense chords, chords with fewer fingers and chords with fewer tense fingers. Experiment two demonstrated that users can learn and remember a large chord vocabulary with both Arpège and cheat sheets, and Arpège encourages the creation of effective mmnemonics.

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Arpège: learning multitouch chord gestures vocabularies
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces

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