Exploring performance of thumb input for pointing and dragging tasks on mobile device

Sayan Sarcar; Chaklam Silpasuwanchai; William Delamare; Ayumu Ono; Antti Oulasvirta; Xiangshi Ren

doi:10.1145/3309700.3338434

Exploring performance of thumb input for pointing and dragging tasks on mobile device

Sayan Sarcar, Chaklam Silpasuwanchai, William Delamare, Ayumu Ono, Antti Oulasvirta, Xiangshi Ren

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Abstract

Thumb based interaction is becoming increasingly popular in mobile devices. However, the interaction still remains slow, ambiguous, and error-prone. This paper presents an exploratory user experiment results of one-thumb pointing and dragging task performance, based on three factors: mobile size, target size, and posture (sitting and walking positions). Beside obvious findings, we observed some surprising scenarios, such as the gripping style of most users was casual and did not follow any formal model or structure. We concluded our experiences into design implications with respect to mobile size, posture, and gripping styles.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Asian CHI Symposium 2019
Subtitle of host publication	Emerging HCI Research Collection, AsianHCI 2019
Editors	Eunice Sari, Kazuyuki Fujita, Adi Tedjasaputra, Masitah Ghazali, Shio Miyafuji
Publisher	ACM
Pages	38-45
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450366793
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3309700.3338434
Publication status	Published - 4 May 2019
MoE publication type	A4 Conference publication
Event	Asian CHI Symposium - Glasgow, United Kingdom Duration: 5 Apr 2019 → 5 Apr 2019

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Conference	Asian CHI Symposium
Country/Territory	United Kingdom
City	Glasgow
Period	05/04/2019 → 05/04/2019

Keywords

error rates
mobile HCI
thumb input
touchscreens

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Sarcar, S., Silpasuwanchai, C., Delamare, W., Ono, A., Oulasvirta, A., & Ren, X. (2019). Exploring performance of thumb input for pointing and dragging tasks on mobile device. In E. Sari, K. Fujita, A. Tedjasaputra, M. Ghazali, & S. Miyafuji (Eds.), Proceedings of Asian CHI Symposium 2019: Emerging HCI Research Collection, AsianHCI 2019 (pp. 38-45). ACM. https://doi.org/10.1145/3309700.3338434

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Sarcar, S, Silpasuwanchai, C, Delamare, W, Ono, A, Oulasvirta, A & Ren, X 2019, Exploring performance of thumb input for pointing and dragging tasks on mobile device. in E Sari, K Fujita, A Tedjasaputra, M Ghazali & S Miyafuji (eds), Proceedings of Asian CHI Symposium 2019: Emerging HCI Research Collection, AsianHCI 2019. ACM, pp. 38-45, Asian CHI Symposium, Glasgow, United Kingdom, 05/04/2019. https://doi.org/10.1145/3309700.3338434

Exploring performance of thumb input for pointing and dragging tasks on mobile device. / Sarcar, Sayan; Silpasuwanchai, Chaklam; Delamare, William et al.
Proceedings of Asian CHI Symposium 2019: Emerging HCI Research Collection, AsianHCI 2019. ed. / Eunice Sari; Kazuyuki Fujita; Adi Tedjasaputra; Masitah Ghazali; Shio Miyafuji. ACM, 2019. p. 38-45.

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