BlyncSync: enabling multimodal smartwatch gestures with synchronous touch and blink
B Wang, T Grossman - Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Proceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2020•dl.acm.org
Input techniques have been drawing abiding attention along with the continual
miniaturization of personal computers. In this paper, we present BlyncSync, a novel multi-
modal gesture set that leverages the synchronicity of touch and blink events to augment the
input vocabulary of smartwatches with a rapid gesture, while at the same time, offers a
solution to the false activation problem of blink-based input. BlyncSync contributes the
concept of a mutual delimiter, where two modalities are used to jointly delimit the intention of …
miniaturization of personal computers. In this paper, we present BlyncSync, a novel multi-
modal gesture set that leverages the synchronicity of touch and blink events to augment the
input vocabulary of smartwatches with a rapid gesture, while at the same time, offers a
solution to the false activation problem of blink-based input. BlyncSync contributes the
concept of a mutual delimiter, where two modalities are used to jointly delimit the intention of …
Input techniques have been drawing abiding attention along with the continual miniaturization of personal computers. In this paper, we present BlyncSync, a novel multi-modal gesture set that leverages the synchronicity of touch and blink events to augment the input vocabulary of smartwatches with a rapid gesture, while at the same time, offers a solution to the false activation problem of blink-based input. BlyncSync contributes the concept of a mutual delimiter, where two modalities are used to jointly delimit the intention of each other's input. A study shows that BlyncSync is 33% faster than using a baseline input delimiter (physical smartwatch button), with only 150ms in overhead cost compared to traditional touch events. Furthermore, our data indicates that the gesture can be tuned to elicit a true positive rate of 97% and a false positive rate of 1.68%.
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