The Influence of Hand Size on Touch Accuracy

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The Influence of Hand Size on Touch Accuracy. / Larsen, Joachim Normann; Jacobsen, Tórur Højgaard; Boring, Sebastian; Bergstrom-Lehtovirta, Joanna; Pohl, Henning.

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019. 4.

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Harvard

Larsen, JN, Jacobsen, TH, Boring, S, Bergstrom-Lehtovirta, J & Pohl, H 2019, The Influence of Hand Size on Touch Accuracy. in Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services., 4, Association for Computing Machinery, 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Taiwan, Province of China, 01/10/2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3338286.3340115

APA

Larsen, J. N., Jacobsen, T. H., Boring, S., Bergstrom-Lehtovirta, J., & Pohl, H. (2019). The Influence of Hand Size on Touch Accuracy. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services [4] Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3338286.3340115

Vancouver

Larsen JN, Jacobsen TH, Boring S, Bergstrom-Lehtovirta J, Pohl H. The Influence of Hand Size on Touch Accuracy. In Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. Association for Computing Machinery. 2019. 4 https://doi.org/10.1145/3338286.3340115

Author

Larsen, Joachim Normann ; Jacobsen, Tórur Højgaard ; Boring, Sebastian ; Bergstrom-Lehtovirta, Joanna ; Pohl, Henning. / The Influence of Hand Size on Touch Accuracy. Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services. Association for Computing Machinery, 2019.

Bibtex

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abstract = "Touch accuracy is not just dependent on the performance of the touch sensor itself. Instead, aspects like phone grip or occlusion of the screen have been shown to also have an influence on accuracy. Yet, these are all dependent on one underlying factor: the size and proportions of the user's hand. To better understand touch input, we investigate how 11 hand features influence accuracy. We find that thumb length in particular correlates significantly with touch accuracy and accounts for about 12% of touch error variance. Furthermore, we show that measures of some higher level interactions also correlate with hand size.",
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