Evaluation of hybrid front- and back-of-device interaction on mobile devices

  • Authors:
  • Markus Löchtefeld;Christoph Hirtz;Sven Gehring

  • Affiliations:
  • German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany;German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany;German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), Saarbrücken, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

With the recent trend of increasing display sizes of mobile devices, one-handed interaction has become increasingly difficult when a user wants to maintain a safe grip around the device at the same time. In this paper we evaluate how a combination of hybrid front- and back-of-device touch input can be used to overcome the difficulties when using a mobile device with one hand. Our evaluation shows that, even though such a technique is slower than conventional front-of-device input, it allows for accurate and safe input.