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Direct touch cannot reach the entire interaction areas of hand-held tablet. This paper explores which areas are accessible for direct touch on the front as well as on the back of tablets. The insights gained can serve as base for interactions designers to place GUI widgets, highlight areas that are hardly touchable, and thus, motivate further research on indirect pointing techniques for touch interactions.
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Wolf, K., Schleicher, R., Rohs, M. (2014). Touch Accessibility on the Front and the Back of Held Tablet Devices. In: Auvray, M., Duriez, C. (eds) Haptics: Neuroscience, Devices, Modeling, and Applications. EuroHaptics 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8618. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-44193-0_21
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