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Conference Papers Year : 2017

CommandBoard: Creating a General-Purpose Command Gesture Input Space for Soft Keyboards

Carla F Griggio
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Xiaojun Bi
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Wendy E. Mackay

Abstract

CommandBoard offers a simple, efficient and incrementally learnable technique for issuing gesture commands from a soft keyboard. We transform the area above the keyboard into a command-gesture input space that lets users draw unique command gestures or type command names followed by execute. Novices who pause see an in-context dynamic guide, whereas experts simply draw. Our studies show that CommandBoard’s inline gesture shortcuts are significantly faster (almost double) than markdown symbols and significantly preferred by users. We demonstrate additional techniques for more complex commands, and discuss trade-offs with respect to the user’s knowledge and motor skills, as well as the size and structure of the command space
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hal-01679137 , version 1 (09-01-2018)

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Jessalyn Alvina, Carla F Griggio, Xiaojun Bi, Wendy E. Mackay. CommandBoard: Creating a General-Purpose Command Gesture Input Space for Soft Keyboards. UIST '17 Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Oct 2017, Quebec City, Canada. pp.17-28, ⟨10.1145/3126594.3126639⟩. ⟨hal-01679137⟩
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