Exploring Standard and Novel Interactions on a Multi-Touch-Enhanced Mouse

Mahmoud Sadeghi, David Ahlström

2025

Abstract

The mouse is the primary pointing device in desktop computing. Its shape and form have advanced over decades, but its functionality is still limited to basic interactions. Inspired by early work, we envision multi-touch enhanced mouse input. With two user studies, we first show that our simple multi-touch mouse prototype – a smartphone attached to the base of a mouse – compares well to a standard mouse in point-and-click and dragging tasks. In a third study, we explore the potential of multi-touch enhanced mouse input and show that with Depth-Drag, a new multi-touch interaction, users are up to 47% faster when navigating and moving objects between stacked desktop windows than when they use a regular mouse.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Sadeghi M. and Ahlström D. (2025). Exploring Standard and Novel Interactions on a Multi-Touch-Enhanced Mouse. In Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: HUCAPP; ISBN 978-989-758-728-3, SciTePress, pages 551-560. DOI: 10.5220/0013124200003912

in Bibtex Style

@conference{hucapp25,
author={Mahmoud Sadeghi and David Ahlström},
title={Exploring Standard and Novel Interactions on a Multi-Touch-Enhanced Mouse},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: HUCAPP},
year={2025},
pages={551-560},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013124200003912},
isbn={978-989-758-728-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 20th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications - Volume 1: HUCAPP
TI - Exploring Standard and Novel Interactions on a Multi-Touch-Enhanced Mouse
SN - 978-989-758-728-3
AU - Sadeghi M.
AU - Ahlström D.
PY - 2025
SP - 551
EP - 560
DO - 10.5220/0013124200003912
PB - SciTePress