Drag-and-Pop

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Drag-and-pop is an extension of traditional drag-and-drop. As the user starts dragging an icon towards a target, drag-and-pop moves potential targets close to the cursor. This results in smaller hand movements.

Publications

Drag-and-Pop and Drag-and-Pick: techniques for accessing remote screen content on touch- and pen-operated systems

Conference: Proceedings of Interact 2003, 2003
By: Patrick Baudisch, Edward Cutrell, Dan Robbins, Mary Czerwinski, Peter Tandler, Benjamin Bederson, Alex Zierlinger
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