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For example, in a web browser, the user could navigate to the previously viewed page by pressing the right mouse button, moving the mouse briefly to the left, then releasing the button. The Opera, Konqueror and Mozilla web browsers recognize mouse gestures such as this.

Mouse gestures are a relatively new form of input. As of 2004, most programs do not support them. Each program that recognizes mouse gestures does so in its own way, sometimes allowing for very short mouse movement distances to be recognized as gestures, and sometimes requiring very precise emulation of a certain movement pattern (e.g. circle). Some implementations allow users to customize these factors.

Some computer and video games have used mouse gestures. For example, in the Myth real-time strategy series, originally created by Bungie Software, players use them to order battlefield units to move in a desired direction. Another game using mouse gestures is Lionhead's Black and White.

Some tools allow using mouse gestures in any application, such as Sensiva and StrokeIt for Microsoft WindowsImage use policy. Microsoft Windows is a range of commercial operating environments for personal computers. The range was first introduced by Microsoft in 1985 and eventually has come to dominate the world personal computer market. All recent versions of. KDEKDE K D esktop E nvironment) is a free desktop environment and development platform built with Trolltech's Qt toolkit. It runs on most Unix and Unix-like systems, such as Linux, BSD and Solaris. There are also ports to Mac OS X using its X11 layer and Mic includes universal mouse gesture support since version 3.2.

See also:

• Pie menuA pie menu (also referred to as a "radial menu") is a user interface which is designed for quick selection of a limited number of options in a computer application, usually with a mouse. A typical pie menu requires the user to click a mouse button, after
• Computer accessibilityIn human-computer interaction, computer accessibility refers to the usability of a computer system by people with disabilities. It is largely a software concern. However, when hardware or software is used to customize a computer for a disabled person, tha

External links

• Sensiva is a general mouse gesture solution for Windows systems.
• Ralph Hare has written a mouse gestures implementation for Internet Explorer.
• StrokeIt mouse gesture recognition system for Windows.
• Documentation of mouse gestures in Opera.
• OptiMoz adds mouse gesture and/or pie menu support to Mozilla. So does All-in-One Mouse Gestures.

• The Gesture Recognition Home Page is the homepage for Gesture Recognition and provides a great deal of further information on human-computer interaction