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Accessing and manipulating occluded content in layered 2D drawings can be difficult. This paper characterizes a design space of techniques that facilitate access to occluded content.

Accessing and manipulating occluded content in layered 2D drawings can be difficult. This paper characterizes a design space of techniques that facilitate access to occluded content.

Pen gesture interfaces have difficulty supporting arbitrary multiple-stroke selections because lifting the pen introduces ambiguity as to whether the next stroke should add to the existing

Sometimes users fail to notice a change that just took place on their display.

We present ExperiScope, an analytical tool to help designers and experimenters explore the results of quantitative evaluations of interaction techniques.

InkSeine is a prototype inking application from Microsoft Research that offers the unique ability to search for stuff directly from ink, without transcribing queries to a search box somewhere else.

Using a notebook to sketch designs, reflect on a topic, or capture and extend creative ideas are examples of active note taking tasks.

Many mobile phones integrate services such as personal calendars. Given the social nature of the stored data, however, users often need to access such information as part of a phone conversation.

Acquiring small targets on a tablet or touch screen can be challenging.

Current pen input mainly utilizes the position of the pen tip, and occasionally, a button press.

There are a number of challenges associated with content selection in pen-based interfaces.

The Codex is a dual-screen tablet computer, about the size of a 4”x6” day planner, with a self-supporting binding and embedded sensors.

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Among artists and designers, the pen-and-tablet combination is widely used for creating digital drawings, as digital pens outperform other input devices in replicating the experience of physical

We present Code Space, a system that contributes touch + air gesture hybrid interactions to support co-located, small group developer meetings by democratizing access, control, and sharing of

We explore techniques for hand-held devices that leverage the multimodal combination of touch and motion.

GatherReader is a prototype e-reader with both pen and multi-touch input that illustrates several interesting design trade-offs to fluidly interleave content consumption behaviors (reading and

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Deep Convolution Neural Networks (DCNN) have achieved great sucesses in many computer vision and pattern recognition tasks.

For students, knowledge workers, and creative professionals alike, the vast tectonic shifts now taking place in the world of publishing, electronic books, device form-factors, and emerging

GroupTogether is a system that explores cross-device interaction using two sociological constructs.

Rich digital environments with a profusion of devices and displays are becoming increasingly common in user experiences -- yet devices at present largely disregard the physical proximity of nearby

This paper presents a new tap and gesture hybrid method for authenticating mobile device users.

We explore techniques for a slender and untethered stylus prototype enhanced with a full suite of inertial sensors (three-axis accelerometer, gyroscope, and magnetometer).

We present experimental results for two-handed typing on a graphical QWERTY keyboard augmented with linear strokes for Space, Backspace, Shift, and Enter—that is, swipes to the right, left, up, and

The orientation and repositioning of physical artefacts (such as paper documents) to afford shared viewing of content, or to steer the attention of others to specific details, is known as

Touchscreens continue to advance—including progress towards sensing fingers proximal to the display.

A central theme in mechanism design is understanding the tradeoff between simplicity and optimality of the designed mechanism.