ExtendedThumb: A target acquisition approach for one-handed interaction with touch-screen mobile phones

IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 362-370

  Lai, Jianwei ^a   Zhang, Dongsong ^a  

^a Baltimore County   (United States)

Author keywords

ExtendedThumb; mobile phone; one handed interaction; target acquisition; virtual thumb

Indexed keywords

CELLULAR TELEPHONES; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS; MOBILE DEVICES; MOBILE PHONES; TELEPHONE SETS; VIRTUAL ADDRESSES;

EXTENDEDTHUMB; ONE-HANDED; PERCEIVED EASE OF USE; SINGLE-HANDED INTERACTIONS; TARGET ACQUISITION; TASK COMPLETION TIME; TOUCH SCREEN MOBILE PHONES; VIRTUAL THUMB;

TOUCH SCREENS;

EID: 85027922336     PISSN: 21682291     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/THMS.2014.2377205     Document Type: Article

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