An alternative to push, press, and tap-tap-tap: Gesturing on an isometric joystick for mobile phone text entry

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 667-676

  Wobbrock, Jacob O ^a,b   Chau, Duen Horng ^a   Myers, Brad A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

EdgeWrite; Gestures; Isometric joysticks; Mobile phones; Multitap; Pointing; Smartphones; T9; Text input; Unistrokes

Indexed keywords

ISOMETRIC JOYSTICKS; SMARTPHONES; TEXT INPUT; UNISTROKES;

COMPUTER PERIPHERAL EQUIPMENT; ERROR ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MOBILE PHONES;

EID: 35348869338     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240728     Document Type: Conference Paper

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