Making pen-based operation more seamless and continuous

Abstract

The feature of continuous interaction in pen-based system is critically significant. Seamless mode switch can effectively enhance the fluency of interaction. The interface which incorporated the advantages of seamless and continuous operation has the potential of enhancing the efficiency of operation and concentrating the users' attention. In this paper, we present a seamless and continuous operation paradigm based on pen's multiple-input parameters. A prototype which can support seamless and continuous (SC) operation is designed to compare the performance with MS Word 2007 system. The subjects were requested to select target components, activate the command menus and color the targets with a given flowchart in two systems respectively. The experiment results report the SC operation paradigm outperformed the standard ways in MS Word in both operation speed and cursor footprint length (CFL). © 2009 Springer.