Area gestures for a laptop computer enabled by a hover-tracking touchpad

  • Authors:
  • Sangwon Choi;Jiseong Gu;Jaehyun Han;Geehyuk Lee

  • Affiliations:
  • KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea;KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea;KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea;KAIST, Daejeon, Republic of Korea

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 10th asia pacific conference on Computer human interaction
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

A touchpad has been the most popular pointing device for laptop computers. As large, multi-touch sensing touchpads are now common, we came to think about extending its input vocabulary by adding area gestures. In order to explore this possibility, we constructed a laptop-like mock-up with an optical, proximity sensing touchpad, and implemented a few area gestures that may be useful in such an environment. We conducted a user test and ran a task walkthrough with a realistic scenario in order to verify the feasibility of the area gestures in a laptop environment.