Receiving Input at a Computing Device

摘要

This document describes technologies for interpreting physical contact with a non-touchscreen portion of a computing device's housing (e.g., the computing device's case) as input. For example, a user tapping his/her index finger against the back of a computing device, such as a smartphone or a tablet computing device, can be interpreted as input and can cause an operation to be performed by the computing device, such as turning the page of an electronic book that is being displayed by the computing device.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:
receiving, at a mobile computing device, first input on a touchscreen of the computing device; in response to receiving the first input, causing a first operation to be performed by the mobile computing device; receiving, at a mobile computing device, second input that indicates that a user contacted a non-touchscreen portion of a housing of the mobile computing device; selecting, by the mobile computing device, a second operation from among a plurality of possible operations based at least in part on the first operation having been previously performed by the mobile computing device within a threshold amount of time or number of operations of receipt of the second input; and causing the second operation to be performed.