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Mobile phones as a tactile display for tabletop typing

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This paper presents a study into the use of mobile phones as private tactile displays for interactions with tabletop computers. Text entry performance on tabletop computers is often poor due to the soft keyboards that are normally used. We propose using the vibration motor in the user's mobile phone to provide tactile feedback to improve the experience and performance of typing on tabletop computers. We ran an experiment to compare the effects of two different sets of tactile feedback when delivered at two different distal locations on the body (wrist and trouser pocket) using a high quality actuator. The results showed that both sets of feedback improved the text entry rates at the two locations, and that providing more complex feedback produces greater benefits than simplified feedback. We also establish a baseline for standard text entry performance by novice users on tabletop computers using MacKenzie's phrase set.

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    ITS '11: Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces
    November 2011
    295 pages
    ISBN:9781450308717
    DOI:10.1145/2076354
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    1. distal
    2. mobile phone
    3. tabletop interaction
    4. tactile feedback
    5. text entry

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    November 13 - 16, 2011
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    • (2019)Leveraging Distal Vibrotactile Feedback for Target AcquisitionProceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3290605.3300715(1-11)Online publication date: 2-May-2019
    • (2013)Long-Term Study of a Software Keyboard That Places Keys at Positions of Fingers and Their SurroundingsHuman-Computer Interaction. Towards Intelligent and Implicit Interaction10.1007/978-3-642-39342-6_9(72-81)Online publication date: 2013
    • (2012)Vocal interaction in collocated cooperative design2012 IEEE 11th International Conference on Cognitive Informatics and Cognitive Computing10.1109/ICCI-CC.2012.6311155(246-252)Online publication date: Aug-2012

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