TY - GEN
T1 - EdgeSplit
T2 - 2012 14th ACM International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, MobileHCI'12
AU - Hossain, Zahid
AU - Hasan, Khalad
AU - Liang, Hai Ning
AU - Irani, Pourang
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - Devices with small viewports (e.g., smartphones or GPS) result in interfaces where objects of interest can easily re-side outside the view, into off-screen space. Researchers have addressed this challenge and have proposed visual cues to assist users in perceptually locating off-screen ob-jects. However, little attention has been placed on methods for directly selecting these objects. Current designs of off-screen cues can result in overlaps that can make it difficult to use the cues as handles through which users can select the off-screen objects they represent. In this paper, we pre-sent EdgeSplit, a technique that facilitates both the visuali-zation and selection of off-screen objects on small devices. EdgeSplit exploits the space around the device's borders to display proxies of off-screen objects and then partitions the border regions to allow for non-overlapping areas that make selection of objects easier. We present an effective algo-rithm that provides such partitioning and demonstrate the effectiveness of EdgeSplit for selecting off-screen objects.
AB - Devices with small viewports (e.g., smartphones or GPS) result in interfaces where objects of interest can easily re-side outside the view, into off-screen space. Researchers have addressed this challenge and have proposed visual cues to assist users in perceptually locating off-screen ob-jects. However, little attention has been placed on methods for directly selecting these objects. Current designs of off-screen cues can result in overlaps that can make it difficult to use the cues as handles through which users can select the off-screen objects they represent. In this paper, we pre-sent EdgeSplit, a technique that facilitates both the visuali-zation and selection of off-screen objects on small devices. EdgeSplit exploits the space around the device's borders to display proxies of off-screen objects and then partitions the border regions to allow for non-overlapping areas that make selection of objects easier. We present an effective algo-rithm that provides such partitioning and demonstrate the effectiveness of EdgeSplit for selecting off-screen objects.
KW - Off-screen object visualization
KW - Off-screen target selection
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84867723813&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2371574.2371588
DO - 10.1145/2371574.2371588
M3 - Conference Proceeding
AN - SCOPUS:84867723813
SN - 9781450311052
T3 - MobileHCI'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
SP - 79
EP - 82
BT - MobileHCI'12 - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
Y2 - 21 September 2012 through 24 September 2012
ER -