Press & tilt: one-handed text selection and command execution on smartphone

Abstract

We show a text selection and text command execution method for a smartphone by tilting called Press & Tilt. The user can perform caret navigation or text selection by tilting the smartphone while pressing a key of the software keyboard. Then, by releasing the pressed key, text commands such as copy, search, and translate based on the selected text is executed; the executed text command depends on the pressed key. Neither occlusion nor the fat finger problem is of concern, because our method can perform these operations without the need to have a finger touch the upper region of the touchscreen. Also, the user can execute text commands with only one-hand.