Gesture Search: A Tool for Fast Mobile Data Access
Venue
UIST'10: Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, ACM (2010), pp. 87-96
Publication Year
2010
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Abstract
Modern mobile phones can store a large amount of data, such as contacts,
applications and music. However, it is difficult to access specific data items via
existing mobile user interfaces. In this paper, we present Gesture Search, a tool
that allows a user to quickly access various data items on a mobile phone by
drawing gestures on its touch screen. Gesture Search contributes a unique way of
combining gesture-based interaction and search for fast mobile data access. It also
demonstrates a novel approach for coupling gestures with standard GUI interaction.
A real world deployment with mobile phone users showed that Gesture Search enabled
fast, easy access to mobile data in their day-to-day lives. Gesture Search has been
released to public and is currently in use by hundreds of thousands of mobile
users. It was rated positively by users, with a mean of 4.5 out of 5 for over 5000
ratings.
