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Evaluation of Callout Design for Ultra-small Touch Screen Devices

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Akira Ishii,

Buntarou Shizuki,

Jiro TanakaAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2511 - 2518

https://doi.org/10.1145/2851581.2892434

Published: 07 May 2016 Publication History

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Ultra-small touch screen devices tend to suffer from occlusion or the fat finger problem owing to their limited input area. Callout design, a design principle that involves the placement of a callout in a non-occluded area in order to display the occluded area, could eliminate occlusion. However, callout designs for ultra-small touch screen devices have not yet been explored. In this study, we conducted an experiment to examine eight callout designs for ultra-small touch screen devices. The results show that the selection speed was higher when the content of the callout was changed continuously, the error rate decreased when a pointer was displayed to indicate the touched position within the callout, and the workload decreased when the content was changed continuously. Further, the score that subjectively evaluates the performance decreased when the position of the callout was fixed.

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Index Terms

Evaluation of Callout Design for Ultra-small Touch Screen Devices
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms
  2. Interaction design
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments

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CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

May 2016

3954 pages

ISBN:9781450340823

DOI:10.1145/2851581

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Jang RJung CMohaisen DLee KNyang D(2022)A One-Page Text Entry Method Optimized for Rectangle SmartwatchesIEEE Transactions on Mobile Computing10.1109/TMC.2021.305722621:10(3443-3454)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2022
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Singh GDelamare WIrani PMandryk RHancock MPerry MCox A(2018)D-SWIMEProceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3173574.3174208(1-13)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2018
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Ishii AShizuki BDuh HLueg CBillinghust MHuang W(2016)Exploring callout design in selection task for ultra-small touch screen devicesProceedings of the 28th Australian Conference on Computer-Human Interaction10.1145/3010915.3010922(426-434)Online publication date: 29-Nov-2016
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