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Exploring Interactions with Smart Windows for Sunlight Control

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Window facades play an increasingly important role in modern architecture. Regular shutters and blinds allow only coarse control over the sunlight coming through windows. Smart windows using see-through displays can be controlled on a per-pixel basis and thereby have the potential of fine-grained control. In this paper, we explore future interaction with such smart windows and conducted an elicitation study with 16 potential users. We provide both a mid-air gesture set and a smartphone interface to define regions for glare protection and brightness control. The study was conducted on a working 1.6 x 2.6 m smart window prototype with 130 x 144 individually switchable pixels.

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    CHI EA '17: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
    May 2017
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    DOI:10.1145/3027063
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    1. gesture elicitation
    2. guessability
    3. mid-air
    4. smart windows
    5. user-defined

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