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
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;
Conference_Titel :
Innovative Computing, Information and Control (ICICIC), 2009 Fourth International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Kaohsiung
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5543-0
DOI :
10.1109/ICICIC.2009.83
