Author: Yang Li
works at Google Research
location: UIST’10, October 3–6, 2010, New York
Summary:
Hypothesis:
It order to optimize the potential use of mobile devices It will be much more effective to create a gesture based program in order to navigate through one's interface. Such examples would include looking through contacts, application, music, etc. By doing this the amount of time consumed would be noticeably less and would allow quicker access for many users.by using a tool called gesture search the users will be able to assess mobile phone data, applications, bookmarks, and music with more ease by drawing gestures. This will allow the user to remember and write a part of the data they may be looking for. The tool is based on search frequency and history to increase accuracy and time when obtaining results.
Method/result:
This gesture tool was tested on the android platform and was user tests by 125 different mobile users. From the results it showed that contacts were mostly searched for using this tool and they were able to obtain results from two gestures.
Discussion:
I was quite intrigued by this paper and i thought they did a great job in implementing a time saving tool such as this. This is mostly because i have to spend a lot of time navigating through my interface when using mobile devices as well. I hope that this application will be of wide spread use and other platforms of mobile device will choose to adopt this idea as well
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