Paper Reading #8: Gesture Search: A Tool for Fast Mobile Data Access

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Author: Yang Li
Affiliation: Google Research, Redmond, Washington
Presentation: UIST’10, October 3–6, 2010, New York, New York, USA

Summary
Hypothesis
Mobile computing has been the most popular computing phenomenon recently. And we already have using search engines to answer our day to day questions which may cover a really wide spectrum. However the problem is that mobile computing tools have not been able to provide the efficient methods of doing search.
Gesture Search hypothesizes a more efficient way to search data, by using shape drawing, just drawing gestures instead of writing everything down.

Methods and Results
The user will only need to remember and write a part of the of data they are searching for. The tool that has been designed in to smartphone takes into account the search frequency and history to get the matching results.Users did a set of GUI interaction tasks on an Android phone that involved finding contacts out locating two locations on a Google map were. Over 560 touch trajectories for GUI interactions were collected.
Though the application has already been implemented over the android platform,it was user tested among 125 mobile phone users before being released.59 0f those users filled the survey to give their feedback.
People were really appreciative of the new technology.The user studies showed that contacts were mostly searched for. People were able to get results mostly by drawing two gestures. They were not really interested in searching applications using this functionality.

Discussion
I am pretty satisfied with the research and its implementation on phones. We tend to bring things from PC computing and just put it on a similar way on mobile computing devices as well, but the study shows and inspires to look for better alternatives that can work much efficiently. I would love to have that tool in my iPhone if Apple would make something like that, or Google would develop an application for iOS itself.Furthermore the no need of a different user interface that would have accepted an user interface like a virtual keyboard would have done makes it an even powerful tool.

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