Spotted: an alternative to pinch-to-zoom #spots #mobiles #ui

Bill is a true ui pioneer. It's good to see someone questioning the new mobile "wimp ". 

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Toward compound navigation tasks on mobiles via spatial manipulation

Michel Pahud, Ken Hinckley, Shamsi Iqbal, Abigail Sellen, Bill Buxton

We contrast the Chameleon Lens, which uses 3D movement of a mobile device held in the nonpreferred hand to support panning and zooming, with the Pinch-Flick-Drag metaphor of directly manipulating the view using multi-touch gestures. Lens-like approaches have significant potential because they can support navigation-selection, navigation-annotation, and other such compound tasks by off-loading navigation to the nonpreferred hand while the preferred hand annotates, marks a location, or draws a path on the screen. Our experimental results show that the Chameleon Lens is significantly slower than Pinch-Flick-Drag for the navigation subtask in isolation.