Finding common ground: A survey of capacitive sensing in human-computer interaction

T Grosse-Puppendahl, C Holz, G Cohn… - Proceedings of the …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
For more than two decades, capacitive sensing has played a prominent role in human-
computer interaction research. Capacitive sensing has become ubiquitous on mobile …

The fat thumb: using the thumb's contact size for single-handed mobile interaction

S Boring, D Ledo, XA Chen, N Marquardt… - Proceedings of the 14th …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
Modern mobile devices allow a rich set of multi-finger interactions that combine modes into a
single fluid act, for example, one finger for panning blending into a two-finger pinch gesture …

Pre-touch sensing for mobile interaction

K Hinckley, S Heo, M Pahud, C Holz, H Benko… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Touchscreens continue to advance including progress towards sensing fingers proximal to
the display. We explore this emerging pre-touch modality via a self-capacitance touchscreen …

Estimating 3d finger angle on commodity touchscreens

R **ao, J Schwarz, C Harrison - … of the 2015 International Conference on …, 2015 - dl.acm.org
We describe a novel approach for estimating the pitch and yaw of fingers relative to a
touchscreen's surface, offering two additional, analog degrees of freedom for interactive …

TouchPose: hand pose prediction, depth estimation, and touch classification from capacitive images

K Ahuja, P Streli, C Holz - The 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Today's touchscreen devices commonly detect the coordinates of user input through
capacitive sensing. Yet, these coordinates are the mere 2D manifestations of the more …

PalmTouch: Using the palm as an additional input modality on commodity smartphones

HV Le, T Kosch, P Bader, S Mayer… - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Touchscreens are the most successful input method for smartphones. Despite their flexibility,
touch input is limited to the location of taps and gestures. We present PalmTouch, an …

Estimating the finger orientation on capacitive touchscreens using convolutional neural networks

S Mayer, HV Le, N Henze - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM International …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
In the last years, touchscreens became the most common input device for a wide range of
computers. While touchscreens are truly pervasive, commercial devices reduce the richness …

A user-specific machine learning approach for improving touch accuracy on mobile devices

D Weir, S Rogers, R Murray-Smith… - Proceedings of the 25th …, 2012 - dl.acm.org
We present a flexible Machine Learning approach for learning user-specific touch input
models to increase touch accuracy on mobile devices. The model is based on flexible, non …

Focused and casual interactions: Allowing users to vary their level of engagement

H Pohl, R Murray-Smith - Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on …, 2013 - dl.acm.org
We describe the focused-casual continuum, a framework for describing interaction
techniques according to the degree to which they allow users to adapt how much attention …

TriTap: identifying finger touches on smartwatches

H Gil, DY Lee, S Im, I Oakley - Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference …, 2017 - dl.acm.org
The small screens of smartwatches provide limited space for input tasks. Finger identification
is a promising technique to address this problem by associating different functions with …