Tong Yang's scientific contributions

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In this study, we employed a recall test to investigate how memory load affects the learning curve of gesture-letter pairs for younger and older users. The gesture-letter pairs were carefully designed to mimic real-world gesture-function/command associations on a touchscreen mobile phone. Both younger and older user groups showed lower recall accur...
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The efficiency and convenience of gesture shortcuts have an important influence on user experience. However, it is unknown how the number of permitted swiping angles and their allowable range affect users’ performance and experience. In the present study, young and old users executed swiping in multiple directions on smartphones. Results showed tha...
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We compared three list scrolling gestures including sliding to scroll, moving a regular scrollbar, and scrolling through alphabetic index, in a name locating task on mobile phone. We found that scrolling through alphabetic index was the fastest independent of target locations. Moreover, for near-reaching targets RT was shorter for sliding to scroll...

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... Conversely, other studies showed that longer lines of text were associated with better comprehension [17], increased typo detection rate, and less scrolling compared to shorter lines [12]. It has been reported that less frequent scrolling resulted in lower levels of fatigue and a better emotional experience, further improving perceived usability [18]. Moreover, Zhang and colleagues [19] conducted an eye-tracking study to examine the effect of list formats on search performance and subjective satisfaction in e-commerce listing pages. ...