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Fingers Before Glass: Reassessing the 2009 Mobile Interaction Track

Fingers Before Glass: Reassessing the 2009 Mobile Interaction Track

The mobile interaction papers preserved from HCI 2009 record a discipline caught between keypads and capacitive glass. This retrospective examines what the track got right about touch, context and small-screen usability — and which of its confident predictions now read as period pieces.