Title

Gesturebar: Improving The Approachability Of Gesture-Based Interfaces

Keywords

Approachability; Disclosure; Gestures; Learning; Pen

Abstract

GestureBar is a novel, approachable UI for learning gestural interactions that enables a walk-up-and-use experience which is in the same class as standard menu and toolbar interfaces. GestureBar leverages the familiar, clean look of a common toolbar, but in place of executing commands, richly discloses how to execute commands with gestures, through animated images, detail tips and an out-of- document practice area. GestureBar's simple design is also general enough for use with any recognition technique and for integration with standard, non-gestural UI components. We evaluate GestureBar in a formal experiment showing that users can perform complex, ecologically valid tasks in a purely gestural system without training, introduction, or prior gesture experience when using GestureBar, discovering and learning a high percentage of the gestures needed to perform the tasks optimally, and significantly outperforming a state of the art crib sheet. The relative contribution of the major design elements of GestureBar is also explored. A second experiment shows that GestureBar is preferred to a basic crib sheet and two enhanced crib sheet variations. Copyright 2009 ACM.

Publication Date

12-1-2009

Publication Title

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Number of Pages

2269-2278

Document Type

Article; Proceedings Paper

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1145/1518701.1519050

Socpus ID

77953994747 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/77953994747

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