ARC-Pad: a mobile device for efficient cursor control on large displays
| dc.contributor.author | McCallum, David | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Young, James (Computer Science) Jamieson, Randall (Psychology) | en_US |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Irani, Pourang (Computer Science) | en_US |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2012-01-09T15:34:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2012-01-09T15:34:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2012-01-09 | |
| dc.degree.discipline | Computer Science | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Science (M.Sc.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | I present ARC-Pad, a cursor positioning technique for large displays. It allows us to use a touchscreen-enabled phone as a mobile touchpad, and has a hybrid pointing technique to quickly reach distant targets. Users can tap to instantly transport the cursor to a location onscreen, then slide for fine positioning, as with a regular touchpad. This combination makes ARC-Pad especially suited to large displays, even when the touchpad is very small. I develop several modifications to ARC-Pad and evaluate them, including sending screenshots of the desktop to the phone's touchscreen and using accelerometer data to dynamically modify control-display gain. I perform a series of experiments to compare ARC-Pad to existing cursor positioning systems, and show that ARC-Pad achieves a higher throughput in a target selection task. Finally, I extend ARC-Pad for 3D object positioning, and show that ARC-Pad comes very close to the performance of a 6DOF input device. | en_US |
| dc.description.note | February 2012 | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/5047 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | cursor | en_US |
| dc.subject | mobile | en_US |
| dc.title | ARC-Pad: a mobile device for efficient cursor control on large displays | en_US |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |