Many fingers make light work : non-visual capacitive surface exploration

Halvey, Martin and Crossan, Andrew (2014) Many fingers make light work : non-visual capacitive surface exploration. In: 16th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2014-11-12. (https://doi.org/10.1145/2663204.2663253)

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Abstract

In this paper we investigate how we can change interactions with mobile devices so we can better support subtle low effort intermittent interaction. In particular we conducted an evaluation with varying interaction techniques which looked at non-visual touch based exploration of information on a capacitive surface. The results of this evaluation indicate that there is very little difference in terms of selection accuracy between the interaction techniques that we implemented and a slight but significant time reduction when using multiple fingers to search, over one finger. Users found locating information and relating information to physical landmarks easier than relating virtual locations to each other. In addition it was found that search strategy and interaction varied between tasks and also at different points in the task.

  • Item type:Conference or Workshop Item(Paper)
    ID code:49715
    Dates:
    Date
    Event
    12 November 2014
    Published
    3 October 2014
    Accepted
    Notes:. © ACM, 2014. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in ICMI '14 Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction Pages 156-163 , (2014) http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/2663204.2663253
    Subjects:Science > Mathematics > Electronic computers. Computer science
    Department:Faculty of Science > Computer and Information Sciences
    Depositing user: Pure Administrator
    Date deposited:08 Oct 2014 14:33
    Last modified:11 Apr 2024 03:01
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    URI:https://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/49715
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