Paper Info
Title
Thumb widgets: apply thumb-tracking to enhance capabilities of multi-touch on mobile devices
Abstract
While multi-touch design allows natural and flexible figure gestures in interacting with mobile devices, the palm-size screen often limits its potential in application and arouses issues such as inefficient mode switch and incomplete gesture. To enrich the vocabulary of finger gestures in user interaction, we present Thumb Widgets, a mechanism that adopts thumb as assisted input channel to enhance the capabilities of multi-touch on touch-based mobile devices. Thumb Widgets expand the design space in gesture-based UIs and promote efficiency for tasks such as mode switching, parameter setting, etc. Also, Thumb Widgets enable incomplete gestures to be performed around the periphery of the device.
Year
DOI
Venue
2013
10.1145/2468356.2468585
CHI Extended Abstracts
Keywords
Field
DocType
thumb widget,touch-based mobile device,design space,inefficient mode switch,mode switching,mobile device,flexible figure gesture,finger gesture,multi-touch design,incomplete gesture,thumb widgets,mobile devices
Design space,Thumb,Gesture,Computer science,Communication channel,Mobile device,Human–computer interaction,Multi-touch,Multimedia,Vocabulary,Mode switching
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
4
Authors
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Xinda Zeng121.04
Feng Tian222844.58
Yingying Jiang3576.50
Xiaolong (Luke) Zhang441.07
Guozhong Dai5817.25
Hongan Wang664279.77