• DocumentCode
    3461540
  • Title

    An Evaluation of Thumb Interface for Menu Selection on Mobile Equipment

  • Author

    Sun, Minghui ; Ren, Xiangshi

  • Author_Institution
    Sch. of Inf., Kochi Univ. of Technol., Kami, Japan
  • fYear
    2009
  • fDate
    7-9 Dec. 2009
  • Firstpage
    805
  • Lastpage
    809
  • Abstract
    Touchscreen-based mobile devices are now quite popular. In many real world situations, users like to use their thumbs to interact with mobile devices. Thumb interaction has received attention from many researchers. In this paper, we report an experimental study to find the relationship between thumb input methods and user performance in thumb interaction. Our results suggest that quick wheel, a kind of gesture mode, allows users to select menus more quickly and correctly. We also suggest that visual feedback should be designed to match the input method.
  • Keywords
    human computer interaction; touch sensitive screens; gesture mode; mobile equipment; thumb input methods; thumb interface evaluation; touchscreen-based mobile devices; visual feedback; Computer interfaces; Feedback; Fingers; Impedance matching; Legged locomotion; Mobile computing; Navigation; Sun; Thumb; Wheels;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Innovative Computing, Information and Control (ICICIC), 2009 Fourth International Conference on
  • Conference_Location
    Kaohsiung
  • Print_ISBN
    978-1-4244-5543-0
  • Type

    conf

  • DOI
    10.1109/ICICIC.2009.83
  • Filename
    5412623