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We present a JavaScript library constructed in order for a web application on a smartphone to take actions in response to the user tapping the smartphone body in somewhere other than the display. The library offers six different events in total of tapping (1) top right, (2) bottom right, (3) top left, (4) bottom left corners of the smartphone in the portrait orientation, (5) top right, (6) top left corners in the landscape orientation. A machine learning algorithm is employed to detect and classify those six events according to signals from the six-axis accelerometer built in the smartphone. Adding event listeners that relate each event to its handler function, we can make a web application that reacts to the user events of tapping the smartphone body by hand.
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Takano, S., Niibori, M., Kamada, M. (2023). A JavaScript Library for User Interface by Tapping Smartphone Bodies. In: Barolli, L. (eds) Advances in Networked-based Information Systems. NBiS 2023. Lecture Notes on Data Engineering and Communications Technologies, vol 183. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-40978-3_45
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