An aspect of the present disclosure stores information related to the elements in the form of an array of objects. Each object contains information indicating the area covered by the object on the display. The index values used for accessing an element may be viewed as forming an N-tuple, with each value of the N-tuple representing the value of the corresponding dimension/index. A swipe is first mapped to a single one of the dimensions and an end position along the dimension. The value of the tuple corresponding to only the dimension is modified and the object corresponding to the tuple is accessed. The area information in the accessed object is examined to determine whether the end position of swipe falls in the display area covered by the element. The tuple value of only the dimension is modified in searching for the element that covers the end position.