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Lucid touch: a see-through mobile device

Authors:

Clifton Forlines,

Patrick Baudisch,

John Barnwell, and

Chia ShenAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '07: Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

October 2007

Pages 269 - 278

https://doi.org/10.1145/1294211.1294259

Published: 07 October 2007 Publication History

Abstract

Touch is a compelling input modality for interactive devices; however, touch input on the small screen of a mobile device is problematic because a user's fingers occlude the graphical elements he wishes to work with. In this paper, we present LucidTouch, a mobile device that addresses this limitation by allowing the user to control the application by touching the back of the device. The key to making this usable is what we call pseudo-transparency: by overlaying an image of the user's hands onto the screen, we create the illusion of the mobile device itself being semi-transparent. This pseudo-transparency allows users to accurately acquire targets while not occluding the screen with their fingers and hand. Lucid Touch also supports multi-touch input, allowing users to operate the device simultaneously with all 10 fingers. We present initial study results that indicate that many users found touching on the back to be preferable to touching on the front, due to reduced occlusion, higher precision, and the ability to make multi-finger input.

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Lucid touch: a see-through mobile device
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces

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UIST '07: Proceedings of the 20th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

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DOI:10.1145/1294211

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