EdgeMark Menu: A 1D Menu for Curved Edge Display Smartphones

Hanaë Rateau (1) , Yosra Rekik (2) , Edward Lank (1, 3) , Keiko Katsuragawa (4)

1 University of Waterloo [Waterloo]
2 LAMIH - Laboratoire d'Automatique, de Mécanique et d'Informatique industrielles et Humaines - UMR 8201
3 LOKI - Technology and knowledge for interaction
4 Industrial Materials Institute (NRCC)

While many smartphones now include a waterfall (or curved edge) display, this edge is rarely exploited for input. In this paper, we introduce EdgeMark, a thumb-operated, one-handed, gestural menu to provide rapid and subtle access to commands. In a first study, we assess the movement range of the user during uni-manual input to define a spatial range for our EdgeMark menu. In a second study, we compare three potential EdgeMark designs to a marking menu variant to assess accuracy and performance. Our findings indicate that EdgeMark menus can serve as a reliable, effective mechanism for subtle, one-hand command invocation in modern, waterfall-edged smartphones.

Mots clés: gestural menus; menus; mobile devices

Domaines: Informatique [cs]

Hanaë Rateau, Yosra Rekik, Edward Lank, Keiko Katsuragawa. EdgeMark Menu: A 1D Menu for Curved Edge Display Smartphones. MobileHCI '21: 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, Sep 2021, Toulouse & Virtual France, France. pp.1-9, ⟨10.1145/3447526.3472017⟩. ⟨hal-03379059⟩