Improving App Look up speed on Mobile via User-defined Touch Gesture
Chi Zhang · 2017
Nowadays, users rely on the smartphones to do all sort of things more often. On average, a normal user accesses to his or her smartphone 150 times per day. These include accessing varieties of apps for different tasks. Accessing these apps via the traditional smartphone graphic interface, the user needs to navigate the UI hierarchy to look up the target app. However, with the increasing amount of apps installed, the looking up process takes a lot of time. Using gesture shortcuts directly to active an app can largely simplify the apps? look up process but its performances were not investigated by previous research. This study evaluated the speed and accuracy of accessing target app using the user-defined gesture shortcuts approach and the traditional graphic interface. The results suggest the user-defined gesture shortcuts approach can improve the app look up speed. Additionally, detail breakdowns of speed differences, as well as the advantages of each approach, were analyzed.