Caret movement is difficult with touch input because of finger occlusion and the imprecision of interacting with a small display using fingers. We hypothesize that bend might provide a better text manipulation solution. We propose bend gestures to move a single caret or dual carets without requiring hand repositioning. We create a deformable prototype and implement the gestures. We present our bend interactions for caret manipulation and discuss our prototype.

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Caret Manipulation using Deformable Input in Mobile Devices

Alexander Keith Eady, Audrey Girouard

TEI: ACM Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interactions, 2015