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Enhancing Pinch-Drag-Flick Paradigm with Two New Gestures: Two-Finger-Tap for Tablets and Tap&Tap for Smartphones

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Alessio BellinoAuthors Info & Claims

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015

Pages 534 - 551

https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22698-9_37

Published: 14 September 2015 Publication History

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The mobile versions of services such as Google Maps or Open Street Maps allow the exploration of maps on smartphones and tablets. The gestures used are the pinch to adjust the zoom level and the drag/flick to move the map. In this paper, two new gestures to adjust the zoom level of maps (but also of images and documents) are presented. Both gestures – with slight differences – allow the identification of a target area to zoom, which is enlarged automatically up to cover the whole map container. The proposed gestures are added to the traditional ones (drag, pinch and flick) without any overlap. Therefore, users do not need to change their regular practices. They have just two more options to control the zoom level. One of the most relevant and appreciated advantages has to do with the gesture for smartphones (Tap&Tap): this allows users to control the zoom level with just one hand. The traditional pinch gesture, instead, needs two hands. According to the test results on the new gestures in comparison with the traditional pinch, 30 % of time is saved on tablets (Two-Finger-Tap gesture) whereas 14 % on smartphones (Tap&Tap gesture).

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Singh GDelamare WIrani PMandryk RHancock MPerry MCox A(2018)D-SWIMEProceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3173574.3174208(1-13)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3173574.3174208
Bellino A(2018)SEQUENCEPersonal and Ubiquitous Computing10.1007/s00779-018-1129-222:4(751-770)Online publication date: 1-Aug-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s00779-018-1129-2

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Enhancing Pinch-Drag-Flick Paradigm with Two New Gestures: Two-Finger-Tap for Tablets and Tap&Tap for Smartphones
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms

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ISBN:978-3-319-22697-2

DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-22698-9

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Julio Abascal
Universidad del País Vasco/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, Donostia-San Sebastián, Spain
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Simone Barbosa
PUC-Rio, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
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Mirko Fetter
University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany
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Tom Gross
University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany
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Philippe Palanque
University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France
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Marco Winckler
University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

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Singh GDelamare WIrani PMandryk RHancock MPerry MCox A(2018)D-SWIMEProceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3173574.3174208(1-13)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3173574.3174208
Bellino A(2018)SEQUENCEPersonal and Ubiquitous Computing10.1007/s00779-018-1129-222:4(751-770)Online publication date: 1-Aug-2018
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/s00779-018-1129-2

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