research-article

BinarySwipes: Fast List Search on Small Touchscreens

Authors:

Johannes Hartmann,

Maximilian Schirmer,

Florian EchtlerAuthors Info & Claims

MuC '19: Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2019

Pages 333 - 340

https://doi.org/10.1145/3340764.3340774

Published: 08 September 2019 Publication History

Abstract

Smartwatches and other wearables generally have small screens, thereby complicating touch-based interaction. Selection from a long list, e.g. to locate a contact or a music track, is particularly cumbersome due to the limited interaction space. We present BinarySwipes, an interaction technique based on binary search which is designed to speed up list search tasks on space-constrained screens. We evaluate a prototypical implementation of BinarySwipes on a smartwatch. Results from our evaluation with 21 participants show improved performance over a plain linear search on lists with 100, 200 and 500 entries, but also increased mental load on the users.

References

[1]

Sunggeun Ahn, Jaeyeon Lee, Keunwoo Park, and Geehyuk Lee. 2018. Evaluation of Edge-based Interaction on a Square Smartwatch. Int. J. Hum.-Comput. Stud. 109, C (Jan. 2018), 68--78.

Digital Library

[2]

Frank R. Bentley and Ying-Yu Chen. 2015. The Composition and Use of Modern Mobile Phonebooks. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '15). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2749--2758.

Digital Library

[3]

Luca Chittaro and Luca De Marco. 2005. Evaluating the Effectiveness of "Effective View Navigation" for Very Long Ordered Lists on Mobile Devices. In Proceedings of the 2005 IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT'05). Springer-Verlag, Berlin, Heidelberg, 482--495.

Digital Library

[4]

Christian Corsten, Simon Voelker, Andreas Link, and Jan Borchers. 2018. Use the Force Picker, Luke: Space-Efficient Value Input on Force-Sensitive Mobile Touchscreens. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 661, 12 pages.

Digital Library

[5]

Mark D. Dunlop, Andreas Komninos, and Naveen Durga. 2014. Towards high quality text entry on smartwatches. In CHI EA '14 CHI '14 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 2365--2370.

Digital Library

[6]

George W. Furnas. 1997. Effective View Navigation. In Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '97). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 367--374.

Digital Library

[7]

Sandra G. Hart. 2006. Nasa-Task Load Index (NASA-TLX); 20 Years Later. Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting 50, 9 (2006), 904--908.

[8]

Benjamin Lafreniere, Carl Gutwin, Andy Cockburn, and Tovi Grossman. 2016. Faster Command Selection on Touchscreen Watches. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4663--4674.

Digital Library

[9]

Fred G. W. C. Paas and Jeroen J. G. Van Merriënboer. 1993. The Efficiency of Instructional Conditions: An Approach to Combine Mental Effort and Performance Measures. Human Factors 35, 4 (1993), 737--743.

[10]

Simon T. Perrault, Eric Lecolinet, James Eagan, and Yves Guiard. 2013. Watchit: Simple Gestures and Eyes-free Interaction for Wristwatches and Bracelets. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '13). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1451--1460.

Digital Library

[11]

Katrin Plaumann, Michael Müller, and Enrico Rukzio. 2016. CircularSelection: Optimizing List Selection for Smartwatches. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC '16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 128--135.

Digital Library

[12]

Philip Quinn and Andy Cockburn. 2009. Zoofing!: faster list selections with pressure-zoom-flick-scrolling. In OZCHI '09 Proceedings of the 21st Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest. ACM, Melbourne, Australia, 185--192.

Digital Library

[13]

Anurag Rao. 2016. Automatic partitioning of a list for efficient list navigation. US Patent App. 15/224,299. Filed July 29th, 2016.

[14]

Guy Shani, Chris Meek, Tim Paek, Bo Thiesson, and Gina Venolia. 2009. Searching Large Indexes On Tiny Devices: Optimizing Binary Search With Character Pinning. 257--266. https://www.microsoft.com/enus/research/publication/searching-large-indexes-on-tiny-devices-optimizing-binary-search-with-character-pinning/

Digital Library

[15]

Gaganpreet Singh, William Delamare, and Pourang Irani. 2018. D-SWIME: A Design Space for Smartwatch Interaction Techniques Supporting Mobility and Encumbrance. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '18). ACM, New York, NY, USA, Article 634, 13 pages.

Digital Library

[16]

John Sweller. 1988. Cognitive Load During Problem Solving: Effects on Learning. Cognitive Science 12, 2 (1988), 257--285.

[17]

Robert Xiao, Gierad Laput, and Chris Harrison. 2014. Expanding the Input Expressivity of Smartwatches with Mechanical Pan, Twist, Tilt and Click. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 193--196.

Digital Library

Cited By

Rey BZhu KPerrault SBardot SNeshati AIrani P(2022)Understanding and Adapting Bezel-to-Bezel Interactions for Circular Smartwatches in Mobile and Encumbered ScenariosProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/35467366:MHCI(1-28)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3546736
Stanke DSchroth PRohs M(2022)TrackballWatchProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/35467346:MHCI(1-14)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3546734
Roth JEhlers JGetschmann CEchtler FKaltenbrunner MMurer MWolf KOakley I(2021)TempoWatch: a Wearable Music Control Interface for Dance InstructorsProceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction10.1145/3430524.3442461(1-6)Online publication date: 14-Feb-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3430524.3442461

Index Terms

BinarySwipes: Fast List Search on Small Touchscreens
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction techniques
      1. Gestural input
  2. Ubiquitous and mobile computing
    1. Empirical studies in ubiquitous and mobile computing
    2. Ubiquitous and mobile computing systems and tools

Recommendations

B2B-Swipe: Swipe Gesture for Rectangular Smartwatches from a Bezel to a Bezel
CHI '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

We present B2B-Swipe, a single-finger swipe gesture for a rectangular smartwatch that starts at a bezel and ends at a bezel to enrich input vocabulary. There are 16 possible B2B-Swipes because a rectangular smartwatch has four bezels. Moreover, B2B-...
Enhancing physicality in touch interaction with programmable friction
CHI '11: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Touch interactions have refreshed some of the 'glowing enthusiasm' of thirty years ago for direct manipulation interfaces. However, today's touch technologies, whose interactions are supported by graphics, sounds or crude clicks, have a tactile sameness ...
MK-pad: a Mouse+Keyboard input technique for distance interaction through a mobile tablet device
APCHI '13: Proceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction

We introduce MK-Pad (Mouse+Keyboard Pad), a technique for entering text and performing mouse operations using a tablet device for distance interaction. MK-Pad uses the screen of a 10.1" tablet touchscreen to host a soft keyboard and turns the screen ...

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Other conferences

MuC '19: Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2019

September 2019

863 pages

ISBN:9781450371988

DOI:10.1145/3340764

Copyright © 2019 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected].

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 08 September 2019

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article
Research
Refereed limited

Conference

MuC'19

MuC'19: Mensch-und-Computer

September 8 - 11, 2019

Hamburg, Germany

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

3
Total Citations
View Citations
105
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)6
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)0

Reflects downloads up to 10 Nov 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Rey BZhu KPerrault SBardot SNeshati AIrani P(2022)Understanding and Adapting Bezel-to-Bezel Interactions for Circular Smartwatches in Mobile and Encumbered ScenariosProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/35467366:MHCI(1-28)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3546736
Stanke DSchroth PRohs M(2022)TrackballWatchProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/35467346:MHCI(1-14)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3546734
Roth JEhlers JGetschmann CEchtler FKaltenbrunner MMurer MWolf KOakley I(2021)TempoWatch: a Wearable Music Control Interface for Dance InstructorsProceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction10.1145/3430524.3442461(1-6)Online publication date: 14-Feb-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3430524.3442461

View Options

Get Access

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Table of Contents