Zooming user interfaces are increasingly popular on mobile
devices with touchscreens.Swiping and pinching finger
gestures anywhere on the screen manipulate the displayed
portion of a page,and taps open objects within the page.
This makes navigation easy but limits other manipulations of
objects that would be supported naturally by the same gestures,notably cut and paste,multiple selection,and drag and
drop.A popular device that suffers from this limitation is
Apples iPhone.In this paper,we present Bezel Swipe,an
interaction technique that supports multiple selection,cut,
copy,paste and other operations without interfering with
zooming,panning,tapping and other pre-defined gestures.
Participants of our user study found Bezel Swipe to be aviable alternative to direct touch selection.