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Interaction Proxemics: Combining Physical Spaces for Seamless Gesture Interaction

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Tilman Dingler,

Florian AltAuthors Info & Claims

PerDis '15: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Pervasive Displays

Pages 107 - 114

https://doi.org/10.1145/2757710.2757722

Published: 10 June 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Touch and gesture input have become popular for display interaction. While applications usually focus on one particular input technology, we set out to adjust the interaction modality based on the proximity of users to the screen. Therefore, we built a system which combines technology-transparent interaction spaces across 4 interaction zones: touch, fine-grained, general, and coarse gestures. In a user study, participants performed a pointing task within and across these zones. Results show that zone transitions are most feasible up to 2m from the screen. Hence, applications can map functionality across different interaction zones, thereby providing additional interaction dimensions and decreasing the complexity of the gesture set. We collected subjective feedback and present a user-defined gesture set for performing a series of standard tasks across different interaction zones. Seamless transition between these spaces is essential to create a consistent interaction experience; finally, we discuss characteristics of systems that take into account user proxemics as input modality.

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Interaction Proxemics: Combining Physical Spaces for Seamless Gesture Interaction
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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PerDis '15: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on Pervasive Displays

June 2015

268 pages

ISBN:9781450336086

DOI:10.1145/2757710

General Chairs:
Sven Gehring
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrücken, Germany
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Antonio Krüger
German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence, Saarbrücken, Germany
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Program Chairs:
Florian Alt
University of Munich, Munich, Germany
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Nick Taylor
University of Dundee, Dundee, UK

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