Flick-and-brake: finger control over inertial/sustained scroll motion

  • Authors:
  • Mathias Baglioni;Sylvain Malacria;Eric Lecolinet;Yves Guiard

  • Affiliations:
  • Telecom ParisTech - LTCI-CNRS, Alcatel Lucent Bell Labs, Paris, France;Telecom ParisTech- LTCI-CNRS, Paris, France;Telecom ParisTech- LTCI-CNRS, Paris, France;Telecom ParisTech- LTCI-CNRS, Paris, France

  • Venue:
  • CHI '11 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We present two variants of Flick-and-Brake, a technique that allows users to not only trigger motion by touch-screen flicking but also to subsequently modulate scrolling speed by varying pressure of a stationary finger. These techniques, which further exploit the metaphor of a massive wheel, provide the user with online friction control. We describe a finite-state machine that models a variety of flicking interaction styles, with or without pressure control. We report the results of a preliminary user study that suggests that for medium to long distance scrolling the Flick-and-Brake techniques require less gestural activity than does standard flicking. One of the two variants of the technique is faster, but no less accurate, than state-of-the-art flicking. Users also reported they preferred Flick-and-Brake over the standard flick and judged it more efficient. We indicate some pending issues raised by the results of this preliminary investigation.