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Exploring tapping with thumb input for flexible tablets

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CHI EA '14: CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Flexible displays offer new interaction techniques, such as bend gestures, but a little work has been done to support touch input, the most common input for handheld displays. In this paper, we explore touch input using the thumb of the holding hand, and compare it for different tapping tasks, between a flexible and a rigid tablet. We present initial design guidelines to use touch input with thumb in flexible devices. Our result suggests that users can perform tapping interaction using thumb input in both rigid and flexible devices with similar accuracy, and they prefer holding the display on the side or the bottom corner over the bottom center.

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Shorey PGirouard AMark GFussell SLampe Cschraefel mHourcade JAppert CWigdor D(2017)Bendtroller:Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3025453.3025463(1447-1458)Online publication date: 2-May-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3025453.3025463
Sorathia KSingh AChhabra M(2017)BendSwipe16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction --- INTERACT 2017 - Volume 1051610.1007/978-3-319-68059-0_45(431-435)Online publication date: 25-Sep-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-319-68059-0_45
Ansara RGirouard AQuigley ADiamond SIrani PSubramanian S(2014)Augmenting bend gestures with pressure zones on flexible displaysProceedings of the 16th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices & services10.1145/2628363.2634228(531-536)Online publication date: 23-Sep-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2628363.2634228

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Exploring tapping with thumb input for flexible tablets
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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DOI:10.1145/2559206

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Shorey PGirouard AMark GFussell SLampe Cschraefel mHourcade JAppert CWigdor D(2017)Bendtroller:Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3025453.3025463(1447-1458)Online publication date: 2-May-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3025453.3025463
Sorathia KSingh AChhabra M(2017)BendSwipe16th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction --- INTERACT 2017 - Volume 1051610.1007/978-3-319-68059-0_45(431-435)Online publication date: 25-Sep-2017
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1007/978-3-319-68059-0_45
Ansara RGirouard AQuigley ADiamond SIrani PSubramanian S(2014)Augmenting bend gestures with pressure zones on flexible displaysProceedings of the 16th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices & services10.1145/2628363.2634228(531-536)Online publication date: 23-Sep-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2628363.2634228

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