Quantifying Touch: New Metrics for Characterizing What Happens During a Touch
Junhan Kong, Mingyuan Zhong, James Fogarty, Jacob O. Wobbrock · 2022 · Proceedings of the 24th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS '22)
This paper formalizes 15 target-agnostic metrics for characterizing what happens during a touch interaction on a touchscreen, moving beyond the traditional approach of treating touches as simple (x, y) coordinate events. The key insight is that touches are not atomic — they…
touch input · motor accessibility · human performance · touch metrics · fine motor function