Tilting operations for small screen interfaces

@inproceedings{Rekimoto1996TiltingOF,
  title={Tilting operations for small screen interfaces},
  author={Jun Rekimoto},
  booktitle={ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology},
  year={1996}
}
  • J. Rekimoto
  • Published in
    ACM Symposium on User…
     1 November 1996
  • Computer Science
This TechNote introduces new interaction techniques for small screen devices such as palmtop computers or handheld electric devices, including pagers and cellular phones. Our proposed method uses the tilt of the device itself as input. Using both tilt and buttons, it is possible to build several interaction techniques ranging from menus and scroll bars, to more complicated examples such as a map browsing system and a 3D object viewer. During operation, only one hand is required to both hold and… 
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