A user study on image browsing on touchscreens

Abstract

Default image browsing interfaces on touch-based mobile devices provide limited support for image search tasks. To facilitate fast and convenient searches we propose an alternative interface that takes advantage of 3D graphics and arranges images on a rotatable globe according to color similarity. In a user study we compare the new design to the iPad's image browser. Results collected from 24 participants show that for color-sorted image collections the globe can reduce search time by 23% without causing more errors and that it is perceived as being fun to use and preferred over the standard browsing interface by 70% of the participants.

The Video Browser Showdown: a live evaluation of interactive video search tools

“…Some tools of VBS2013 obviously support such a linear search already (e.g., the VideoCycle and the AAU tool). In addition, it could be beneficial to investigate alternative content visualization methods that allow users to see more content at a glance and hence to more quickly recognize desired content (like for example [2]). Also, the usage of visualizations that more clearly convey information about the content structure (e.g., [5,15,28]) could be very helpful.…”

Next generation image and video browsing on mobile devices

“…Some examples are a Fisheye-like view [2], a 3D ring [14], different 3D globe configurations [1] and a hexagonal lattice [12]. In our current research we are using color analysis in order to enhance image browsing combined in combination with 2D and 3D visualizations.…”

“…As we could show in [1] that such representations can improve search performance on a tablet-PC, we now want to extend our investigation to smaller devices. In a current user study we are evaluating them for small mobile devices like smart phones.…”

Mobile video browsing with a 3D filmstrip

“…Based on our work in mobile image browsing [1], we use a 3D interface in order to provide a good overview of the video content as well as a very intuitive touchbased interaction. We are currently preparing a user study in order to evaluate its efficiency in direct comparison to default video search tools on tablet PCs (i.e., video players).…”