USABILITY TESTING OF APPLICATIONS BY ASSESSING GESTURE INPUTS

• US 20150261659A1
• Filed: 03/12/2014
• Published: 09/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/12/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: SAP SE
• Original Assignee: Caroline Schuster, Dietrich Mayer-Ullmann, Patrick Fischer
• Inventors: BADER, Bjoern, FISCHER, Patrick, MANGERICH, Juergen, MAYER-ULLMANN, Dietrich, SCHUSTER, Caroline, GRAEFF, Susann
• Application Number:
  US14/207,509
• Publication Number:
  US 20150261659A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3664 Environments for testing or debugging software
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 11/3688 for test execution, e.g. scheduling of test suites
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 8/38 for implementing user interfaces

Abstract

Various embodiments of systems and methods to assess gesture inputs for performing usability testing of an application are described herein. In one aspect, a GUI associated with an application to be tested is presented. Gesture inputs from test participants to invoke execution of a task of the application using the GUI are recorded. Further, 3D coordinates corresponding to each of the recorded gesture inputs are determined And, the determined 3D coordinates are assessed to determine at least one intuitive gesture input to invoke execution of the task of the application.

Claims

1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions, which when executed by a computer cause the computer to perform operations comprising:

receive gesture inputs from a plurality of test participants, wherein the gesture inputs are aimed to invoke an execution of a task of an application using a graphical user interface (GUI);

determine 3D coordinates corresponding to at least one of the received gesture inputs; and

assess the determined 3D coordinates to determine at least one intuitive gesture input to invoke the execution of the task.

2. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, further comprising instructions, which when executed cause the computer system to perform operations comprising:

associating the determined at least one intuitive input gesture to invoke execution of the task.

3. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the gesture inputs comprise one or more of a hand gesture, a leg gesture, a face gesture, a body gesture, eyes gesture and a voice command.

4. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein assessing the determined 3D coordinates comprises comparing the gesture inputs of the plurality of test participants.

5. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the 3D coordinates are determined by measuring starting points and ending points of scanned skeletons corresponding to the received gesture inputs.

6. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the at least one intuitive gesture input comprises an average gesture input of the received gesture inputs.

7. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1, wherein the 3D coordinates are determined using a 3D coordinates capturing module of the computer system and the determined 3D coordinates are assessed using a gesture assessing module of the computer system.

8. A computer implemented method to assess gesture inputs for performing usability testing of an application using a computer, the method comprising:

receiving the gesture inputs from a plurality of test participants, wherein the gesture inputs are aimed to invoke an execution of a task of the application using a graphical user interface (GUI);

determining 3D coordinates corresponding to at least one of the received gesture inputs; and

assessing the determined 3D coordinates to determine at least one intuitive gesture input to invoke the execution of the task.

9. The computer implemented method of claim 8, further comprising:

associating the determined at least one intuitive input gesture to invoke execution of the task.

10. The computer implemented method of claim 8, wherein the gesture inputs comprise one or more of a hand gesture, a leg gesture, a face gesture, a body gesture, eyes gesture and a voice command.

11. The computer implemented method of claim 8, wherein assessing the determined 3D coordinates comprises comparing the gesture inputs of the plurality of test participants.

12. The computer implemented method of claim 8, wherein the 3D coordinates are determined by measuring starting points and ending points of scanned skeletons corresponding to the received gesture inputs.

13. The computer implemented method of claim 8, wherein the at least one intuitive gesture input comprises an average gesture input of the received gesture inputs.

14. The computer implemented method of claim 8, wherein the 3D coordinates are determined using a 3D coordinates capturing module of the computer system and the determined 3D coordinates are assessed using a gesture assessing module of the computer system.

15. A computer system to assess gesture inputs for performing usability testing of an application, the computer system comprising:

at least one processor; and

one or more memory devices communicative with the at least one processor, wherein the one or more memory devices store instructions to;

receive the gesture inputs from a plurality of test participants, wherein the gesture inputs are aimed to invoke an execution of a task of the application using a graphical user interface (GUI);

determine 3D coordinates corresponding to at least one of the received gesture inputs; and

assess the determined 3D coordinates to determine at least one intuitive gesture input to invoke the execution of the task.

16. The computer system of claim 15, further comprising:

associating the determined at least one intuitive input gesture to invoke execution of the task.

17. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the gesture inputs comprise one or more of a hand gesture, a leg gesture, a face gesture, a body gesture, eyes gesture and a voice command.

18. The computer system of claim 15, wherein assessing the determined 3D coordinates comprises comparing the gesture inputs of the plurality of test participants.

19. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the at least one intuitive gesture input comprises an average gesture input of the received gesture inputs.

20. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the 3D coordinates are determined using a 3D coordinates capturing module of the computer system and the determined 3D coordinates are assessed using a gesture assessing module of the computer system.