Investigating the dexterity of multi-finger input for mid-air text entry

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn 2015-April, Issue , 2015, Pages 3643-3652

  Sridhar, Srinath ^a   Feit, Anna Maria ^b   Theobalt, Christian ^a   Oulasvirta, Antti ^b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INFORMATICS   (Germany)

^b AALTO UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Fitts' law; Freehand input; Mid air interaction; Text entry

Indexed keywords

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ENGINEERING; VISUAL COMMUNICATION;

ANATOMICAL CHARACTERISTICS; COMPUTATIONAL OPTIMIZATION; FITTS' LAW; FREEHAND INPUT; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; MID-AIR INTERACTION; PERFORMANCE CHARACTERISTICS; TEXT ENTRY;

PALMPRINT RECOGNITION;

EID: 84951109957     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2702123.2702136     Document Type: Conference Paper

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