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Pen + Mid-Air: An Exploration of Mid-Air Gestures to Complement Pen Input on Tablets

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In this paper, we report on a series of studies, exploring the potential of pen and mid-air input on tablets. We describe a field study with an early prototype of a drawing application and follow-up inquiries, such as the development and comparison of gesture sets for pen and mid-air input and pen and multi-touch input with users in a lab environment. Overall, our results suggest that pen and mid-air input should be offered to complement traditional pen and multi-touch input on tablets. We illustrate the final user-defined gestures set for pen and mid-air input and discuss how user preferences of mid-air gestures over touch gestures seem to depend on the complexity of operations and the need of additional menus on the screen.

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      NordiCHI '16: Proceedings of the 9th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction
      October 2016
      1045 pages
      ISBN:9781450347631
      DOI:10.1145/2971485

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