Publications
CONFERENCE (INTERNATIONAL) Behavioral Differences between Tap and Swipe: Observations on Time, Error, Touch-point Distribution, and Trajectory for Tap-and-swipe Enabled Targets
Shota Yamanaka, Hiroki Usuba, Junichi Sato
The ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2024)
May 11, 2024
Existing guidelines for designing targets on smartphones often focus on single-tap operations for accurate selection. However, smartphone interfaces can support both tap and swipe actions. We explored user-performance differences between tap and swipe in two crowdsourced experiments using bar and square targets. Results indicated longer operation times, higher error rates, and significantly shifted touch points for swipe compared to tap. Our findings imply that current target-size guidelines may not apply to swipe-operated targets, and they reveal new research opportunities for swipeable-target designs.
Paper :
Behavioral Differences between Tap and Swipe: Observations on Time, Error, Touch-point Distribution, and Trajectory for Tap-and-swipe Enabled Targets
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