PinchList: Leveraging pinch gestures for hierarchical list navigation on smartphones

• Main Authors: HAN, Teng, LIU, Jie, HASAN, Khalad, FAN, Mingming, KIM, Junhyeok, LI, Jiannan, FAN, Xiangmin, TIAN, Feng, LANK, Edward, IRANI, Pourang
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2019
• Subjects: Pinch gesture; Hierarchical list navigation; touchscreen; Graphics and Human Computer Interfaces
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/sis_research/8061; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/sis_research/article/9064/viewcontent/pinchlist.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Intensive exploration and navigation of hierarchical lists on smartphones can be tedious and time-consuming as it often requires users to frequently switch between multiple views. To overcome this limitation, we present PinchList, a novel interaction design that leverages pinch gestures to support s...