SPad: A Bimanual Interaction Technique for Productivity Applications on Multi-touch Tablets

Cédric Foucault (1) , Manfred Micaux (1) , David Bonnet (2, 3) , Michel Beaudouin-Lafon (3, 3)

1 UP11 - Université Paris-Sud - Paris 11
2 LRI - Laboratoire de Recherche en Informatique
3 IN-SITU - Situated interaction

SPad is a new bimanual interaction technique designed to improve productivity on multi-touch tablets: the user activates quasimodes with the thumb of the non-dominant hand while holding the device with that hand and interacts with the content with the dominant hand. The paper describes the design of SPad and a tablet application that demonstrates how it enables faster, more direct and more powerful interaction without increasing complexity.

Mots clés: SPad; bimanual interaction; tablet; multi-touch; thumb-based interaction; quasimode

Domaines: Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Cédric Foucault, Manfred Micaux, David Bonnet, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon. SPad: A Bimanual Interaction Technique for Productivity Applications on Multi-touch Tablets. CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Apr 2014, Toronto, Canada. pp.1879-1884, ⟨10.1145/2559206.2581277⟩. ⟨hal-00997856⟩