Patent ID: 8875061

Claim:
One or more non-transitory computer-readable media having one or more computer-executable instructions embodied thereon for performing a method of enhancing selectability of objects displayed on a mobile device's touch screen, the method comprising: determining that the mobile device is moving in a pattern that indicates the mobile device is being carried by a user who is presently walking, wherein the pattern is detected using readings from accelerometers in the mobile device; and displaying, though the mobile device's touch screen, a walk-mode interface that increases an ease with which the objects may be selected through the touch screen as compared to a standard interface displayed when the user of the mobile device is not walking with the mobile device by including less action buttons than the standard interface, and wherein a subset of action buttons having above a threshold frequency of use by the user as determined by evaluating the user's previous usage of action buttons are selected from an available plurality of action buttons for display in the walk-mode interface.