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What are some alternatives to “hover” on touch-based devices?

Came up recently in a 37signals podcast: http://37signals.com/podcast/#episode18 The straightforward, "brute-force" solution is to just use the first touch on a UI object as the …
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How to evaluate touch screen applications?

How do you evaluate the usability of touch screen applications? I am looking for checklists, guidelines or best practices that focus specifically on touchscreen issues. I am awa …
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Touch gesture usability in mobile devices – which ones work?

With the iPhone and many other advanced touchscreen phones on the market, the "mobile touch" is an everyday issue for HCI. I would presume that this community will see many questio …
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Why do we have multi-touch interfaces, but not multiple pointers in our OS?

Out of interest more than anything else, I want to know why I don't have the option of plugging in a second mouse to my PC / Mac. Is it too difficult (as a user) to control each in …
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What are touch screens like on other airlines?

I enjoy watching in-flight movies by using the seatback personal-entertainment system. However, I've noticed a registration error in about 25% of the touch screens. I always fly th …