The bubble cursor: enhancing target acquisition by dynamic resizing of the cursor's activation area

By Tovi Grossman, Ravin Balakrishnan. International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2005

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Shift: a technique for operating pen-based interfaces using touch (2007, background): “Researchers have also proposed simplifying target acquisition by snapping the pointer to nearby targets (Bubble Cursor [10]), increasing the size of targets in motor space (Semantic Pointing [6]), or making the pointer select targets within a fixed area (Prince Technique [12]).”
Vega-Lite: A Grammar of Interactive Graphics (2018, background): “nearest the selection’s triggering event is selected (approximating a Bubble Cursor [11]).”
Evaluation Strategies for HCI Toolkit Research (2018, methodology): “Similarly, SwingStates [2] and Prefab [20] illustrate the expressiveness and power of their toolkit by recreating interaction techniques in the research literature (e.g. Bubble Cursor [34], CrossY [1]).”
Back-of-device interaction allows creating very small touch devices (2009, background): “A similar effect can be accomplished by enlarging the pointer instead ( prince technique [9], bubble cursor [6]) or by slowing the pointer down when high accuracy is required (high precision touch screen [19]).”