The expansion of touch-sensitive technologies, ranging from smartwatches to wall screens,
triggered a wider use of gesture-based user interfaces and encouraged researchers to …

Physical keyboards are common peripherals for personal computers and are efficient
standard text entry devices. Recent research has investigated how physical keyboards can …

Smartphones are the most successful mobile devices and offer intuitive interaction through
touchscreens. Current devices treat all fingers equally and only sense touch contacts on the …

This article discusses the Keyboard Augmentation Toolkit (KAT), which supports the creation
of virtual keyboards that can be used both for standalone input (eg, for mid-air text entry) and …

Touchscreens enable intuitive mobile interaction. However, touch input is limited to 2D touch
locations which makes it challenging to provide shortcuts and secondary actions similar to …

Many interactive devices and systems, from smartphones and tablets to smart wearables,
video game consoles, ambient displays and interactive surfaces to systems rendering virtual …

The diminutive size of wrist wearables has prompted the design of many novel input
techniques to increase expressivity. Finger identification, or assigning different functionality …

Vocal shortcuts, short spoken phrases to control interfaces, have the potential to reduce
cognitive and physical costs of interactions. They may benefit expert users of creative …

Despite the benefits of expert interaction techniques, many users do not learn them and
continue to use novice ones. This article aims at better understanding if, when and how …

Identifying the finger used for touching and measuring the force of the touch provides
valuable information on manual interactions. This information can be inferred from …