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Designing gestural interfaces for the interactive TV

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Radu-Daniel VatavuAuthors Info & Claims

EuroITV '13: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video

Pages 167 - 168

https://doi.org/10.1145/2465958.2465981

Published: 24 June 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Home entertainment and interactive TV have known fundamental technological advances in the last years by incorporating developments from sensing, processing, and communications technologies. As such systems become more complex and present more options to their users, careful interaction design is needed in order to deliver the expected level of user experience. This tutorial explores novel interfaces for home entertainment scenarios, presents gesture acquisition and recognition techniques, and sets the focus on designing gestural interfaces for today's interactive smart TVs. Case studies will be discussed and a practical design session reusing the Wii Remote controller for designing interactive TV scenarios will be included.

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Verma SBansal HSorathia K(2015)A Study for Investigating Suitable Gesture Based Selection for Gestural User InterfacesProceedings of the 7th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/2835966.2835972(47-55)Online publication date: 17-Dec-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2835966.2835972
Gugenheimer JHonold FWolf DSchüssel FSeifert JWeber MRukzio E(2015)How Companion-Technology can Enhance a Multi-Screen Television Experience: A Test Bed for Adaptive Multimodal Interaction in Domestic EnvironmentsKI - Künstliche Intelligenz10.1007/s13218-015-0395-730:1(37-44)Online publication date: 16-Sep-2015
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-015-0395-7

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Designing gestural interfaces for the interactive TV
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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EuroITV '13: Proceedings of the 11th European Conference on Interactive TV and Video

June 2013

188 pages

ISBN:9781450319515

DOI:10.1145/2465958

General Chair:
Paolo Paolini
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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Politecnico di Milano, Italy
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George Lekakos
Athens University of Economics and Business, Greece

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Verma SBansal HSorathia K(2015)A Study for Investigating Suitable Gesture Based Selection for Gestural User InterfacesProceedings of the 7th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/2835966.2835972(47-55)Online publication date: 17-Dec-2015
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2835966.2835972
Gugenheimer JHonold FWolf DSchüssel FSeifert JWeber MRukzio E(2015)How Companion-Technology can Enhance a Multi-Screen Television Experience: A Test Bed for Adaptive Multimodal Interaction in Domestic EnvironmentsKI - Künstliche Intelligenz10.1007/s13218-015-0395-730:1(37-44)Online publication date: 16-Sep-2015
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-015-0395-7

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