Paper Info
Title
TouchOver: decoupling positioning from selection on touch-based handheld devices
Abstract
When compared to conventional desktop mouse input, touch input on handheld devices suffers from the lack of a main feature: that of a mouseover state that can provide users with dynamic pro-active information. In addition, with touch screens, selection precision is limited by undesired extra finger tracking during finger press and lift movements. We propose TouchOver, a multi-modal input technique for touch-screen accelerometers-enabled handheld devices where positioning is performed with a finger on the touch surface, while selection is triggered by a gentle "tilt forward" of the device. By doing so, TouchOver adds a mouseover-like state and improves selection precision while remaining compatible with existing interaction techniques such as Shift [10] devised to improve precision. Our formal user study shows a significant precision improvement over two other selection techniques as well as a good tradeoff between speed and accuracy.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1145/2044354.2044362
IHM
Keywords
Field
DocType
touch surface,selection technique,touch screen,touch-based handheld device,significant precision improvement,undesired extra finger tracking,decoupling positioning,multi-modal input technique,finger press,touch input,selection precision,conventional desktop mouse input,touch,mobile devices,handheld device,interaction technique,gestures,mobile device
Computer vision,Gesture,Computer science,Decoupling (cosmology),Finger tracking,Mobile device,Artificial intelligence,Mouseover,Computer hardware
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.38
9
Authors
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Adriano Scoditti1131.16
Thomas Vincent232027.52
J. Coutaz3396.23
Renaud Blanch433625.04
Nadine Mandran511517.05