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Identifying unintentional touches on handheld touch screen devices

Published: 11 June 2012 Publication History

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Accidental triggering of unwanted interaction when using a handheld touch screen device is a problem for many users. Accidental touches on capacitive touch screen based mobile telephones were analyzed in a user test. Patterns that are characteristic of unintentional touches were identified. Layout guidelines to reduce the amount of unintentional touches are presented. Additionally, filtering criteria is defined that rejected 79.6% of unintentional touches whilst rejecting only 0.8% of intentional touches.

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DIS '12: Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference
June 2012
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DOI:10.1145/2317956
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  1. accidental touches
  2. mobile phone
  3. touch UI
  4. touch filtering
  5. touch screen
  6. unintentional touches
  7. user study

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June 11 - 15, 2012
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