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Multi-finger cursor techniques

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Tomer Moscovich,

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GI '06: Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2006

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Published: 07 June 2006 Publication History

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The mouse cursor acts as a digital proxy for a finger on graphical displays. Our hands, however, have ten fingers and many degrees of freedom that we use to interact with the world. We posit that by creating graphical cursors that reflect more of the hand's physical properties, we can allow for richer and more fluid interaction. We demonstrate this idea with three new cursors that are controlled by the user's fingers using a multi-point touchpad. The first two techniques allow for simultaneous control of several properties of graphical objects, while the third technique makes several enhancements to object selection.

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Goguey ANancel MCasiez GVogel DKaye JDruin ALampe CMorris DHourcade J(2016)The Performance and Preference of Different Fingers and Chords for Pointing, Dragging, and Object TransformationProceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2858036.2858194(4250-4261)Online publication date: 7-May-2016
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Sheik-Nainar MHuber JBose RMatic NKaye JDruin ALampe CMorris DHourcade J(2016)Force-enabled TouchPad in CarsProceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2851581.2892390(2697-2704)Online publication date: 7-May-2016
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Index Terms

Multi-finger cursor techniques
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms

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GI '06: Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2006

June 2006

243 pages

ISBN:1568813082

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Carl Gutwin
Univerity of Saskatchewan
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Stephen Mann
The University of Waterloo

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Published: 07 June 2006

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