Virtual content suction user interface for android devices

This paper presents a framework which provides interactive user interface (UI) showing digital content suction in mobile computing devices like Smartphone and tablets. The framework detects user gestures and animates the digital content to create visual illusion of actual content deformation as well as absorption into the interacting object. The content object is approximated to a surface mesh composed of a network of masses and springs, deformation of which is controlled by satisfying spring constraints. The suction is simulated by propagating the masses towards the suction center. Further, the deformation is dynamically updated during suction to respond to user navigation. To analyze the utility of the framework, an implementation is integrated with android-based application. The performance of the system is measured to evaluate its responsiveness with respect to interactive suction. Also usability study is conducted and results are discussed which shows the effectiveness of this framework.