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PocketThumb: a Wearable Dual-Sided Touch Interface for Cursor-based Control of Smart-Eyewear

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David Dobbelstein,

Christian Winkler,

Enrico RukzioAuthors Info & Claims

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, Volume 1, Issue 2

Article No.: 9, Pages 1 - 17

https://doi.org/10.1145/3090055

Published: 30 June 2017 Publication History

Abstract

We present PocketThumb, a wearable touch interface for smart-eyewear that is embedded into the fabrics of the front trouser pocket. The interface is reachable from outside and inside of the pocket to allow for a combined dual-sided touch input. The user can control an absolute cursor with their thumb sliding along the fabric from the inside, while at the same time tapping or swiping with fingers from the outside to perform joint gestures. This allows for resting the hand in a comfortable and quickly accessible position, while performing interaction with a high expressiveness that is feasible in mobile scenarios. In a cursor-based target selection study, we found that our introduced dual-sided touch interaction is significantly faster in comparison to common single-sided absolute as well as relative touch interaction (~19%, resp. ~23% faster). The effect is largest in the mobile conditions standing and walking (up to ~31% faster).

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PocketThumb: a Wearable Dual-Sided Touch Interface for Cursor-based Control of Smart-Eyewear
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Graphics input devices
      2. Pointing devices

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