Blaine Lewis

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HotStrokes: Word-Gesture Shortcuts on a Trackpad

Expert interaction techniques like hotkeys are efficient, but poorly adopted because they are hard to learn. HotStrokes removes the need for learning arbitrary mappings of commands to hotkeys. A user enters a HotStroke by holding a modifier key, then gesture typing a command name on a laptop trackpad as if on an imagi…

UIST '182nd AuthorHand Gesture Recognition +2

FingerArc and FingerChord: Supporting Novice to Expert Transitions with Guided Finger-Aware Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts can be more efficient than graphical input, but they are underused by most users. To alleviate this, we present "Guided Finger-Aware Shortcuts" to reduce the gulf between graphical input and shortcut activation. The interaction technique works by recognising when a special hand posture is used to pr…

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