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BezelCursor: bezel-initiated cursor for one-handed target acquisition on mobile touch screens

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Wing Ho Andy Li,

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SA '13: SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications

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Unimanual interaction allows the user to operate the mobile device in a distracted, multitasking scenario and frees the other hand for tasks like carrying a bag, writing a relevant note etc. In such scenarios, the thumb of the hand holding the device is normally the only available finger for touch input [Boring et al. 2012]. However, mainly due to biomechanical limitations of the thumb, only a subregion of the touch screen is comfortable to access by the thumb [Karlson and Bederson 2007], causing awkward hand postures to reach the rest of the screen. This problem of limited screen accessibility by the thumb deteriorates with screens of increasingly bigger sizes, which, however, are getting more and more popular [Fingas 2012].

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BezelCursor: bezel-initiated cursor for one-handed target acquisition on mobile touch screens
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms

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SA '13: SIGGRAPH Asia 2013 Symposium on Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications

November 2013

90 pages

ISBN:9781450326339

DOI:10.1145/2543651

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Mark Billinghurst
University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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Börje Karlsson
Microsoft Research Asia, China

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Eady AGuerrero ACheung VThue DGirouard A(2024)BendAide: A Deformable Interface to Augment Touchscreen Mobile DevicesProceedings of the 50th Graphics Interface Conference10.1145/3670947.3670960(1-10)Online publication date: 3-Jun-2024
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Eisa REl-Shanwany YAbdelrahman YAbouelsadat W(2017)LINEUp: List Navigation Using Edge MenuIntelligent Human Computer Interaction10.1007/978-3-319-72038-8_8(86-106)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2017
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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.4018/IJMHCI.2016010101

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