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MagGetz: customizable passive tangible controllers on and around conventional mobile devices

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UIST '13: Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

Pages 411 - 416

https://doi.org/10.1145/2501988.2501991

Published: 08 October 2013 Publication History

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This paper proposes user-customizable passive control widgets, called MagGetz, which enable tangible interaction on and around mobile devices without requiring power or wireless connections. This is achieved by tracking and ana-lyzing the magnetic field generated by controllers attached on and around the device through a single magnetometer, which is commonly integrated in smartphones today. The proposed method provides users with a broader interaction area, customizable input layouts, richer physical clues, and higher input expressiveness without the need for hardware modifications. We have presented a software toolkit and several applications using MagGetz.

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