Toward a Systematic Understanding of Children's Touchscreen Gestures

This paper presents ongoing work toward characterizing children's touchscreen surface gesture interactions. We report a preliminary analysis of gestures elicited from children ages 5 to 10. We focus specifically on the differences among gestures made by children of various ages and grade levels. Continuation of this project will consist of more in-depth analysis and systematic characterization of these gestures to help create a deeper understanding of the way children make gestures and, in turn, to motivate new ways in which we can design better touchscreen interactions and gesture recognition algorithms for children.