Memorability of pre-designed and user-defined gesture sets

Miguel Nacenta; Yemliha Kamber; Yizhou Qiang; Per Ola Kristensson

doi:10.1145/2470654.2466142

Memorability of pre-designed and user-defined gesture sets

Miguel Nacenta, Yemliha Kamber, Yizhou Qiang, Per Ola Kristensson

School of Computer Science

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Abstract

We studied the memorability of free-form gesture sets for invoking actions. We compared three types of gesture sets: user-defined gesture sets, gesture sets designed by the authors, and random gesture sets in three studies with 33 participants in total. We found that user-defined gestures are easier to remember, both immediately after creation and on the next day (up to a 24% difference in recall rate compared to pre-designed gestures). We also discovered that the differences between gesture sets are mostly due to association errors (rather than gesture form errors), that participants prefer user-defined sets, and that they think user-defined gestures take less time to learn. Finally, we contribute a qualitative analysis of the tradeoffs involved in gesture type selection and share our data and a video corpus of 66 gestures
for replicability and further analysis.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2013)
Place of Publication	New York
Publisher	ACM
Pages	1099-1108
Number of pages	10
ISBN (Print)	9781450318990
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2466142
Publication status	Published - 27 Apr 2013
Event	ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Paris, France Duration: 27 Apr 2013 → 2 May 2013

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Conference	ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Country/Territory	France
City	Paris
Period	27/04/13 → 2/05/13

Keywords

Gesture sets
Gesture memorability
User-defined gestures
Gesture-based interfaces

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