Self-revealing gestures: teaching new touch interactions in windows 8

  • Authors:
  • Kay Hofmeester;Jennifer Wolfe

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, USA;Microsoft, Redmond, Washington, USA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '12 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The touch language we use to interact with computers and devices is still developing. How can we teach users of our systems new touch gestures without interfering with their user experience? A team of user experience designers and researchers went through an iterative process to design a teaching method for two new touch interactions. This case study describes the designs they created, their insight from user studies, and the final design that will be implemented in Windows 8.