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EdgeSplit: facilitating the selection of off-screen objects

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Zahid Hossain,

Khalad Hasan,

Hai-Ning Liang,

Pourang IraniAuthors Info & Claims

MobileHCI '12: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services

Pages 79 - 82

https://doi.org/10.1145/2371574.2371588

Published: 21 September 2012 Publication History

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Devices with small viewports (e.g., smartphones or GPS) result in interfaces where objects of interest can easily reside outside the view, into off-screen space. Researchers have addressed this challenge and have proposed visual cues to assist users in perceptually locating off-screen objects. However, little attention has been placed on methods for selecting the objects. Current designs of off-screen cues can result in overlaps that can make it difficult to use the cues as handles through which users can select the off-screen objects they represent. In this paper, we present EdgeSplit, a technique that facilitates both the visualization and selection of off-screen objects on small devices. EdgeSplit exploits the space around the device's borders to display proxies of off-screen objects and then partitions the border regions to allow for non-overlapping areas that make selection of objects easier. We present an effective algorithm that provides such partitioning and demonstrate the effectiveness of EdgeSplit for selecting off-screen objects.

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MobileHCI '12: Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services

September 2012

468 pages

ISBN:9781450311052

DOI:10.1145/2371574

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Elizabeth Churchill
Designing Associates, USA
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Sriram Subramanian
University of Bristol, UK
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Patrick Baudisch
Hasso Plattner Institute, Germany
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Kenton O'Hara
Microsoft Research, Cambridge, UK

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