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Contact area interaction with sliding widgets

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Tomer MoscovichAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '09: Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1622176.1622181

Published: 04 October 2009 Publication History

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We show how to design touchscreen widgets that respond to a finger's contact area. In standard touchscreen systems a finger often appears to touch several screen objects, but the system responds as though only a single pixel is touched. In contact area interaction all objects under the finger respond to the touch. Users activate control widgets by sliding a movable element, as though flipping a switch. These Sliding Widgets resolve selection ambiguity and provide designers with a rich vocabulary of self-disclosing interaction mechanism. We showcase the design of several types of Sliding Widgets, and report study results showing that the simplest of these widgets, the Sliding Button, performs on-par with medium-sized pushbuttons and offers greater accuracy for small-sized buttons.

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Contact area interaction with sliding widgets
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens

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UIST '09: Proceedings of the 22nd annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

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ISBN:9781605587455

DOI:10.1145/1622176

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