Search Your Mobile Sketch: Improving the Ratio of Interaction to Information on Mobile Devices

A mobile device’s small interaction space and undersized keyboard can sometimes make textual input difficult and impractical. Many mobile devices are predisposed for sketching as they come with a stylus or touch-screen capabilities, and sketched icons are a natural way to label objects on such a device. In this paper we present a sketch recognition overlay in Google Maps that allows users to search for location markers based on simple graphics and hand-drawn symbols. Author Keywords