Title
Simpleflow: enhancing gestural interaction with gesture prediction, abbreviation and autocompletion
Abstract
Gestural interfaces are now a familiar mode of user interaction and gestural input is an important part of the way that users can interact with such interfaces. However, entering gestures accurately and efficiently can be challenging. In this paper we present two styles of visual gesture autocompletion for 2D predictive gesture entry. Both styles enable users to abbreviate gestures. We experimentally evaluate and compare both styles of visual autocompletion against each other and against non-predictive gesture entry. The best performing visual autocompletion is referred to as SimpleFlow. Our findings establish that users of SimpleFlow take significant advantage of gesture autocompletion by entering partial gestures rather than whole gestures. Compared to nonpredictive gesture entry, users enter partial gestures that are 41% shorter than the complete gestures, while simultaneously improving the accuracy (+13%, from 68% to 81%) and speed (+10%) of their gesture input. The results provide insights into why SimpleFlow leads to significantly enhanced performance, while showing how predictive gestures with simple visual autocompletion impacts upon the gesture abbreviation, accuracy, speed and cognitive load of 2D predictive gesture entry.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-23774-4_47
INTERACT (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
gesture autocompletion,visual autocompletion,gesture prediction,gestural interaction,non-predictive gesture entry,gesture entry,partial gesture,gesture input,gesture abbreviation,predictive gesture entry,predictive gesture,complete gesture
Mouse button,Computer science,Gesture,Pointer (user interface),Gesture recognition,Speech recognition,Human–computer interaction,Cognitive load,Multimedia
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6946
0302-9743
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.42
27
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Mike Bennett190.84
Kevin Mccarthy276042.16
Sile O'Modhrain351947.94
Barry Smyth45711414.55