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Christopher Rinker

Ruth Kikin-Gil

Kimberly Shay Koenig

Shiraz M Somji

Caitlin E Ashley-Rollman

Seth Fox

Weston Thayer

Ravi Pinjala

Ivor Berry

An application of a touch-based device provides a touch-based reorganization of a page element. The application determines a modification associated with a touch action and a page element in response to detecting the touch action on the page element. A control and a hint associated with the modification is displayed in proximity to the page element. The page element is reorganized based on the modification.

Touch-based reorganization of page element

A touch-based device provides invocation control over a keyboard user interface (UI). The device displays a keyboard UI overlaid on an application UI to allow a user to interact with the application UI. A dismissal UI is displayed adjacent to the keyboard UI to allow the user to dismiss the keyboard UI. The keyboard UI is dismissed in response to detecting a user action on the dismissal UI. The device presents a lock UI and an invocation UI adjacent to the lock UI. In response to detecting another user action on the lock UI, the user is prevented from invoking the keyboard UI.

Invocation control over keyboard user interface

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