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id: pinch-and-draw
type: project
title: Pinch & Draw
url: https://auejin.com/en/projects/pinch-and-draw/
lang: en
alternate:
  ko: https://auejin.com/ko/projects/pinch-and-draw/
updated: '2026-08-11'
---

# Pinch & Draw

Jan 2019

- **What** — A technique that takes mid-air pinch gestures as input before the hand reaches a vertical mouse.
- **Why** — A vertical mouse is held with the wrist upright, so nothing can be entered until the hand is already on it.
- **How** — It recognises the pinch trajectory in eight directions: left, right, upper left, lower left, upper right, lower right, up and down.
- **New** — The seconds before the hand touches the mouse become usable input time.

## Abstract

![](https://auejin.com/assets/pinch-and-draw/pinch-and-draw-1.png)