Yang Li

Yang is a Senior Research Scientist in Human Computer Interaction and Mobile Computing at Google. He wrote Gesture Search, a tool for random access of mobile content using gestures. Previously, he built Activity Studio, a tool for designing ubiquitous computing applications using a data-driven approach.See Yang Li's personal website.

Google Publications

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    Bootstrapping Personal Gesture Shortcuts with the Wisdom of the Crowd and Handwriting Recognition

    Tom Ouyang, Yang Li

    CHI 2012: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 2895-2904

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    Gesture coder: a tool for programming multi-touch gestures by demonstration

    Hao Lu, Yang Li

    Proceedings of the 2012 ACM annual conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM, New York, NY, USA, pp. 2875-2884

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    Gesture Search: Random Access to Smartphone Content

    Yang Li

    IEEE Computer: Pervasive Computing, vol. 11 (2012), pp. 10-13

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    Gesture-based interaction: a new dimension for mobile user interfaces

    Yang Li

    Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, ACM, New York, NY, USA (2012), pp. 6-6

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    Tap, swipe, or move: attentional demands for distracted smartphone input

    Matei Negulescu, Jaime Ruiz, Yang Li, Edward Lank

    Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, ACM, New York, NY, USA (2012), pp. 173-180

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    Deep Shot: A Framework for Migrating Tasks Across Devices Using Mobile Phone Cameras

    Sean Chang, Yang Li

    CHI 2011: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 2163-2172

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    DoubleFlip: A Motion Gesture Delimiter for Mobile Interaction

    Jaime Ruiz, Yang Li

    CHI 2011: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 2717-2720

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    Experimental Analysis of Touch-Screen Gesture Designs in Mobile Environments

    Andrew Bragdon, Eugene Nelson, Yang Li, Ken Hinckley

    CHI 2011: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 403-412

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    Gesture Avatar: A Technique for Operating Mobile User Interfaces Using Gestures

    Hao Lü, Yang Li

    CHI 2011: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 207-216

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    User-Defined Motion Gestures for Mobile Interaction

    Jaime Ruiz, Yang Li, Edward Lank

    CHI 2011: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 197-206

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    Gesture Search: A Tool for Fast Mobile Data Access

    Yang Li

    UIST'10: Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, ACM (2010), pp. 87-96

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    Protractor: A Fast and Accurate Gesture Recognizer

    Yang Li

    CHI 2010: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, ACM

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    Beyond Pinch and Flick: Enriching Mobile Gesture Interaction

    Yang Li

    IEEE Comuter, vol. 42 (2009), pp. 87-89

Previous Publications

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    FrameWire: A Tool for Automatically Extracting Interaction Logic from Paper Prototyping Tests

    Yang Li, Xiang Cao, Katherine Everitt, Morgan Dixon, James Landay

    CHI 2010: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 503-512