Virtual stick in caret positioning on touch screens

Jean Baptiste Scheibel; Cyril Pierson; Benoît Martin; Nathan Godard; Vittorio Fuccella; Poika Isokoski

doi:10.1145/2534903.2534918

Virtual stick in caret positioning on touch screens

Jean Baptiste Scheibel, Cyril Pierson, Benoît Martin, Nathan Godard, Vittorio Fuccella, Poika Isokoski

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Abstract

We present our design exploration in the area of virtual stick controllers and a preliminary evaluation in an editing task. Virtual stick controllers are one solution to the problem of precise pointing on touch screens. They operate by using an area of the touch screen as a rate control device that moves a pointer. We implemented and evaluated this technique in a text editing context where unaided precise placement of the caret is difficult. The results showed that with large fonts and long pointing distance positioning the caret with the virtual stick is significantly slower than with conventional finger touching. On the contrary, with small fonts and short pointing distance, we noted no difference.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	IHM 2013 - Actes de la 25ieme Conference Francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine
Pages	107-114
Number of pages	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2534903.2534918
Publication status	Published - 2013
Publication type	A4 Article in conference proceedings
Event	25ieme Conference Francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, IHM 2013 - 25th French Speaking Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2013 - Duration: 1 Jan 2013 → …

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Conference	25ieme Conference Francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, IHM 2013 - 25th French Speaking Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2013
Period	1/01/13 → …

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Android
Caret movement
Gestures
Text editing

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Scheibel, JB, Pierson, C, Martin, B, Godard, N, Fuccella, V & Isokoski, P 2013, Virtual stick in caret positioning on touch screens. in IHM 2013 - Actes de la 25ieme Conference Francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine. pp. 107-114, 25ieme Conference Francophone sur l'Interaction Homme-Machine, IHM 2013 - 25th French Speaking Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI 2013, 1/01/13. https://doi.org/10.1145/2534903.2534918

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