Tap Tips: Lightweight Discovery of Touchscreen Targets
Paul M. Aoki, Amy Hurst, Allison Woodruff

TL;DR
Tap tips is a lightweight, non-intrusive method for guiding users to touchscreen targets, enhancing usability without altering existing gesture sets.
Contribution
The paper introduces tap tips, a novel, minimal-overhead technique for improving touchscreen target discovery in electronic guidebooks.
Findings
Tap tips improve target discovery efficiency.
Usability tests show positive user reception.
Implementation is lightweight and non-disruptive.
Abstract
We describe tap tips, a technique for providing touch-screen target location hints. Tap tips are lightweight in that they are non-modal, appear only when needed, require a minimal number of user gestures, and do not add to the standard touchscreen gesture vocabulary. We discuss our implementation of tap tips in an electronic guidebook system and some usability test results.
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