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Abstract | ||
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We can touch things, and our senses tell us when our hands aretouching something. But most computer input devices cannot detectwhen the user touches or releases the device or some portion of thedevice. Thus, adding touch sensors to input devices offers manypossibilities for novel interaction techniques. We demonstrate theTouchTrackball and the Scrolling TouchMouse, which use unobtrusivecapacitance sensors to detect contact from the users hand withoutrequiring pressure or mechanical actuation of a switch. We furtherdemonstrate how the capabilities of these devices can be matched toan implicit interaction technique, the On-Demand Interface, whichuses the passive information captured by touch sensors to fade inor fade out portions of a display depending on what the user isdoing; a second technique uses explicit, intentional interactionwith touch sensors for enhanced scrolling. We present our newdevices in the context of a simple tax- onomy of tactile inputtechnologies. Finally, we discuss the properties of touch-sensingas an input channel in general. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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1999 | 10.1145/302979.303045 | CHI |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
touch-sensing devices,input channel,input devices,touch sensor,toan implicit interaction technique,novel interaction technique,input device,on-demand interface,user touch,intentional interactionwith touch sensor,sensor technologies,interaction techniques,tactile input,computer input device,touch-sensing input device,user isdoing,haptic input,interaction technique | Interaction technique,Computer science,Communication channel,Human–computer interaction,Scrolling,Fade,Computer hardware,Input device | Conference |
ISBN | Citations | PageRank |
0-201-48559-1 | 64 | 9.15 |
References | Authors | |
17 | 2 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ken Hinckley | 1 | 4423 | 488.74 |
| Mike Sinclair | 2 | 764 | 76.87 |