PSDoodle: Searching for App Screens via Interactive Sketching

TL;DR

PSDoodle introduces an interactive sketch-based tool that uses deep learning to quickly recognize partial screen element sketches and retrieve relevant app screens in real-time, enhancing mobile screen search.

Contribution

It is the first tool to utilize partial sketches for interactive, real-time app screen search, supporting diverse drawing styles and improving search relevance.

Findings

Real-time recognition of partial sketches achieved.

Supports various drawing styles for user convenience.

Enables efficient, interactive screen search process.

Abstract

Keyword-based mobile screen search does not account for screen content and fails to operate as a universal tool for all levels of users. Visual searching (e.g., image, sketch) is structured and easy to adopt. Current visual search approaches count on a complete screen and are therefore slow and tedious. PSDoodle employs a deep neural network to recognize partial screen element drawings instantly on a digital drawing interface and shows results in real-time. PSDoodle is the first tool that utilizes partial sketches and searches for screens in an interactive iterative way. PSDoodle supports different drawing styles and retrieves search results that are relevant to the user's sketch query. A short video demonstration is available online at: https://youtu.be/3cVLHFm5pY4