Wednesday, May 6, 2009

GestureBar: improving the approachability of gesture-based interfaces

Author
Bragdon, Andrew
Zeleznik, Robert
Williamson, Brian

Miller, Timothy

LaViola, Joseph J.Jr.


Summary:
Ease of use of any gesture based system for a novice user. Learnability is an issue for a novice user. The approach here is to integrate the tool bar icons with the corresponding gesture. This allows users to click on the tool bar functions and check the gesture related to it. This application also shows how to draw a gesture and provides a practise area for practise without affecting any user entered data. Four design principles identified - familiarity/ consistency, searchability, expressivity (gesture set to express complex interactions) and low cost.

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