Háskóli ÍslandsUniversity of IcelandSamuelsson, Sigurdur GautiBook, Matthias2021-01-292021-01-292020-06-27Sigurdur Gauti Samuelsson and Matthias Book. 2020. Towards Sketch-based User Interaction with Integrated Software Development Environments. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering Workshops (ICSEW'20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 181–184. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3387940.33922319781450379632https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11815/2433Powerful software tools, such as software development environments, often have complex graphical user interfaces (GUIs) that are not intuitive to handle, especially when performing complex, multi-step operations. We hypothesize that sketching could be a more intuitive way of expressing user intentions than navigating nested menus or memorizing keyboard shortcuts to accomplish complex operations. Enabling this vision requires software capable of both allowing the user to sketch anywhere on a GUI, and interpreting those sketches as specific commands to be performed within the integrated development environment (IDE). In this paper, we report on preliminary results of an elicitation study performed to gather insights into how developers would use a sketch-based interface.181-184eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessSketchingUser interfacesSoftware development environmentsHugbúnaðargerðHugbúnaðarverkfræðiinfo:eu-repo/semantics/conferenceObjectProceedings of the IEEE/ACM 42nd International Conference on Software Engineering Workshops10.1145/3387940.3392231