The hold-and-move gesture for multi-touch interfaces

  • Authors:
  • Alexander Kulik;Jan Dittrich;Bernd Froehlich

  • Affiliations:
  • Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany;Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany;Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Weimar, Germany

  • Venue:
  • MobileHCI '12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Human-computer interaction with mobile devices and services
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

We present the two-finger gesture hold-and-move as an alternative to the disruptive long-tap which utilizes dwell times for switching from panning to object dragging mode in touch interfaces. We make use of a second finger for object selection and manipulation while workspace panning is operated with the first finger. Since both operations can be performed simultaneously, the cumbersome and hard-to-control autoscrolling function is no longer needed when dragging an object beyond the currently visible viewport. Single-finger panning and pinch zooming still work as expected. A user study revealed that hold-and-move enables faster object dragging than the conventional dwell-time approach and that it is preferred by most users.