As mentioned in the Gesture Reserach – Protocol (Part 2: Session Flow), participants were asked to perform 28 actions. This blog provides a description and the “before” and “after” screens of each action
Here are a few key instructions to all moderators who ran this study:
- The moderator needs to make sure that the participant performs an actual “gesture”! If participants say that they would want to tap a softkey for a particular action then we have to document this finding. But we would then inform the user that there is no such softkey and encourage them to find a gesture, with which they would trigger this action.
- The moderator should encourage the participant to use more than one finger if they think that is best for the action.
- It is important that the participants hold the rig inline with their line of sight. If participants hold the rig at an angle or twisted in one direction, the marks may not be accurate.
- If participants want to perform more than one gesture for a certain action, the moderator asks them to choose the most adequate one.
Action: Multiselect
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would select different items at once.”
Action: Move object
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would move an object (drag & drop).”
Action: Delete
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would delete a file.”
Action: Scroll down
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would scroll down to the next page.”
Action: Scroll up
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would scroll up to the previous page.”
Action: Continuous scroll
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would continuously scroll down a very long list of items.”
“For example, if you were looking at the first item in a list of 1,000 items, how would you scroll to the 500th item without repeating a gesture?”
Action: Stop scroll
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would stop to continuously scroll a page.”
Action: Open menu
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would open up a menu; e.g. on the computer, you would be using the right click of your mouse and a context menu opens.”
Action: Open folder
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would open a folder to see what files are inside.”
Action: Close folder
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would close a folder.”
Action: Accept / Verify
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would accept /verify a certain action, e.g. you would like to accept that a text message can be deleted.”
Action: Home
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would return to your home screen.”
Action: Help
“Please perform a gesture which you would use to access help.”
Action: Zoom in
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would zoom into a map.”
Action: Zoom out
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would zoom out of a map.
Action: Magnify
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would magnify a text fragment.
Action: Rotate image
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would rotate an image.”
Action: Pitch
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would tilt the view forward and backward when looking at Google Maps.”
Action: Save
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would save changes that you have made on a screen.”
Action: Print
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would print a certain document.”
Action: Minimize
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would minimize an application.”
Action: Back
“Next we will be looking at things you might do in a Web Browser. Please perform a gesture, with which you would move back a page in your browser window.”
Action: Forward
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would move forward a page in your browser window.”
Action: Cut
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would cut out a text fragment”.
Action: Paste
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would paste a text fragment into an existing text”
Action: Undo
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would undo a certain action.”
Action: Redo
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would redo / repeat a certain action.”
Action: Copy
“Please perform a gesture, with which you would copy a text fragment.”
Dan is the Director of Human Factors & Research at HumanCentric in the United States. Dan received his Ph.D. in Human Factors in 1994 and has been designing and evaluating user interfaces for a variety of companies since then. When Dan is not studying gestures for work, he is the receipient of them from his 2 children. 