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Area gestures for a laptop computer enabled by a hover-tracking touchpad

Sangwon Choi, Jiseong Gu, Jaehyun Han, Geehyuk Lee

Abstract

A touchpad has been the most popular pointing device for laptop computers. As large, multi-touch sensing touchpads are now common, we came to think about extending its input vocabulary by adding area gestures. In order to explore this possibility, we constructed a laptop-like mock-up with an optical, proximity sensing touchpad, and implemented a few area gestures that may be useful in such an environment. We conducted a user test and ran a task walkthrough with a realistic scenario in order to verify the feasibility of the area gestures in a laptop environment.

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Key concepts: Laptop, Touchpad, Gesture, Computer science, Human–computer interaction, Tracking (education), Task (project management), Computer graphics (images)