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Zippro: The Design and Implementation of An Interactive Zipper

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CHI '20: Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/3313831.3376756

Published: 23 April 2020 Publication History

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Zippers are common in a wide variety of objects that we use daily. This work investigates how we can take advantage of such common daily activities to support seamless interaction with technology. We look beyond simple zipper-sliding interactions explored previously to determine how to weave foreground and background interactions into a vocabulary of natural usage patterns. We begin by conducting two user studies to understand how people typically interact with zippers. The findings identify several opportunities for zipper input and sensing, which inform the design of Zippro, a self-contained prototype zipper slider, which we evaluate with a standard jacket zipper. We conclude by demonstrating several applications that make use of the identified foreground and background input methods.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3550323
Paredes LIpsita AMesa JMartinez Garrido RRamani K(2022)StretchARProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/35503056:3(1-26)Online publication date: 7-Sep-2022
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Amesaka TWatanabe HSugimoto MShizuki B(2022)Gesture Recognition Method Using Acoustic Sensing on Usual GarmentProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/35345796:2(1-27)Online publication date: 7-Jul-2022
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Index Terms

Zippro: The Design and Implementation of An Interactive Zipper
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices

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Sathya ALi JRahman TGao GPeng H(2022)CalicoProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/35503236:3(1-32)Online publication date: 7-Sep-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3550323
Paredes LIpsita AMesa JMartinez Garrido RRamani K(2022)StretchARProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/35503056:3(1-26)Online publication date: 7-Sep-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3550305
Amesaka TWatanabe HSugimoto MShizuki B(2022)Gesture Recognition Method Using Acoustic Sensing on Usual GarmentProceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies10.1145/35345796:2(1-27)Online publication date: 7-Jul-2022
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3534579

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