User Experience of On-Screen Interaction Techniques: An Experimental Investigation of Clicking, Sliding, Zooming, Hovering, Dragging, and Flipping

• Published in: Human-computer interaction Vol. 29; no. 2; pp. 109 - 152
• Main Authors: Sundar, S. Shyam, Bellur, Saraswathi, Oh, Jeeyun, Xu, Qian, Jia, Haiyan
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hillsdale Taylor & Francis Group 04.03.2014; Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Subjects: Assessments; Attitudes; Experiments; Human-computer interaction; Mapping; User experience; Variables

From scrolling and clicking to dragging, flipping, sliding, hovering, and zooming, the wide array of interaction techniques has vastly expanded the range of user actions on an interface. Each of these interaction techniques affords a distinct action. But do these techniques differ in their ability t...