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Evaluation of human tangential force input performance

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CHI '12: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 3121 - 3130

https://doi.org/10.1145/2207676.2208727

Published: 05 May 2012 Publication History

Abstract

While interacting with mobile devices, users may press against touch screens and also exert tangential force to the display in a sliding manner. We seek to guide UI design based on the tangential force applied by a user to the surface of a hand-held device. A prototype of an interface using tangential force input was implemented utilizing a force sensitive layer and an elastic layer and used for the user experiment. We investigated user controllability to reach and maintain target force levels and considered the effects of hand pose and direction of force input. Our results imply no significant difference in performance when applying force holding the device in one hand and in two hands. We also observed that users have more physical and perceived loads when applying tangential force in the left-right direction compared to the up-down direction. Based on the experimental results, we discuss considerations for user interface applications of tangential-force-based interface.

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Evaluation of human tangential force input performance
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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CHI '12: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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DOI:10.1145/2207676

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