[UIST2009] VirtualThumb : One-Handed Multi-touch Emulation Technique on Small Devices.

Recently, there has been growing interest in the design of multi-touch based mobile devices. However, multi-touch interactions with one hand on the mobile device are diffi-cult in terms of usability. In spite of this, few have at-tempted to address a supportive approach for multi-touch operations with one hand. In this paper, we present VirtualThumb, a set of software-based conceptual techniques that enables a user to handle multi-touch operations under the limited physical resources available. This simple and novel technique allows users to comfortably handle multi-touch pinching gestures such as zooming, scaling, and rotating using only one finger. Hence, occlusions caused by two fingers are reduced by half, gestures are not restricted by the physical boundaries of the screen, and physical limitations of the user's fingers are reduced.

This technique is protected by 11 Korean Patent & PCT.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• multi-touch
• multi
• touch
• virtual
• thumb
• hci
• uist
• one-handed
• mobile
• lg
• interface
• interaction
• design

[MrRomanticEngineer]

This UI Technology including patents have developed since 2008. if technology transfer which is now working on is finished, you can use those techniques on commercial phone, eBook, TV and ETC. This is also my hope.

[MrRomanticEngineer]

A video of more applications using VirtualThumb is posted in Video Response!

[MrRomanticEngineer]

More Applications using VirtualThumb are Here on vimeo : 5029985, 5533865

[ziroziro99]

Very impressive~~~ I hope to see applications very soon

[3894sk]

Beautiful!! Cool~

[mgood2]

Using two finger  is much better and fun

[pulseon]

looks very convenient, can you change the nail color?

[futureandroid]

Coooooooooooooooooooool. where can i get this?

[BabyReaver]

awesome!!!

[anne1465]

simple but great idea!