Demo of Z-Ring: Context-Aware Subtle Input Using Single-Point Bio-Impedance Sensing
Article No.: 79, Pages 1 - 3
Abstract
This paper presents Z-Ring, a novel wearable device that uses radio frequency (RF) based sensing to offer unique capabilities for human-computer interaction, including subtle input, object recognition, user identification, and passive surface interaction. With only a single sensing modality, Z-Ring achieves diverse and concurrent interactions that can enhance the user experience. We illustrate the potential of Z-Ring to enable seamless context-aware interactions via a custom music player application. In the future, we plan to expand Z-Ring’s functionality with user customization and explore usage for additional applications.
Supplemental Material
ZIP File
Supplemental File
- Download
- 50.03 MB
References
[1]
2020. LiteVNA. https://www.zeenko.tech/litevna
[2]
2023. scikit-learn. https://scikit-learn.org/
[3]
Martín Abadi, Ashish Agarwal, Paul Barham, Eugene Brevdo, Zhifeng Chen, Craig Citro, Greg S. Corrado, Andy Davis, Jeffrey Dean, Matthieu Devin, Sanjay Ghemawat, Ian Goodfellow, Andrew Harp, Geoffrey Irving, Michael Isard, Yangqing Jia, Rafal Jozefowicz, Lukasz Kaiser, Manjunath Kudlur, Josh Levenberg, Dandelion Mané, Rajat Monga, Sherry Moore, Derek Murray, Chris Olah, Mike Schuster, Jonathon Shlens, Benoit Steiner, Ilya Sutskever, Kunal Talwar, Paul Tucker, Vincent Vanhoucke, Vijay Vasudevan, Fernanda Viégas, Oriol Vinyals, Pete Warden, Martin Wattenberg, Martin Wicke, Yuan Yu, and Xiaoqiang Zheng. 2015. TensorFlow: Large-Scale Machine Learning on Heterogeneous Systems. https://www.tensorflow.org/ Software available from tensorflow.org.
[4]
Gregory D Abowd, Anind K Dey, Peter J Brown, Nigel Davies, Mark Smith, and Pete Steggles. 1999. Towards a better understanding of context and context-awareness. In Handheld and Ubiquitous Computing: First International Symposium, HUC’99 Karlsruhe, Germany, September 27–29, 1999 Proceedings 1. Springer, 304–307.
[5]
Juan David Hincapié-Ramos, Xiang Guo, Paymahn Moghadasian, and Pourang Irani. 2014. Consumed Endurance: A Metric to Quantify Arm Fatigue of Mid-Air Interactions. In Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Toronto, Ontario, Canada) (CHI ’14). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1063–1072. https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557130
[6]
Wei Liu, Xue Li, and Daoli Huang. 2011. A survey on context awareness. In 2011 International Conference on Computer Science and Service System (CSSS). IEEE, 144–147.
[7]
Xiaolong Lou, Xiangdong Li, Preben Hansen, and Zhipeng Feng. 2020. An empirical evaluation on arm fatigue in free hand interaction and guidelines for designing natural user interfaces in VR. In Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality. Design and Interaction: 12th International Conference, VAMR 2020, Held as Part of the 22nd HCI International Conference, HCII 2020, Copenhagen, Denmark, July 19–24, 2020, Proceedings, Part I 22. Springer, 313–324.
[8]
Anandghan Waghmare, Youssef Ben Taleb, Ishan Chatterjee, Arjun Narendra, and Shwetak Patel. 2023. Z-Ring: Single-Point Bio-Impedance Sensing for Gesture, Touch, Object and User Recognition. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Hamburg, Germany) (CHI ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 150, 18 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3581422
Index Terms
- Demo of Z-Ring: Context-Aware Subtle Input Using Single-Point Bio-Impedance Sensing
Recommendations
OptiRing: Low-Resolution Optical Sensing for Subtle Thumb-to-Index Micro-Interactions
SUI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 ACM Symposium on Spatial User InteractionWe present OptiRing, a ring-based wearable device that enables subtle single-handed micro-interactions using low-resolution camera-based sensing. We demonstrate that our approach can work with ultra-low image resolutions (e.g., 5 × 5 pixels), which is ...
Z-Ring: Single-Point Bio-Impedance Sensing for Gesture, Touch, Object and User Recognition
CHI '23: Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing SystemsWe present Z-Ring, a wearable ring that enables gesture input, object detection, user identification, and interaction with passive user interface (UI) elements using a single sensing modality and a single point of instrumentation on the finger. Z-Ring ...
Sensing the Physical World with RF: Self-Interferometry & Passive-Interferometry
S3'19: Proceedings of the 2019 on Wireless of the Students, by the Students, and for the Students WorkshopRF can provide a non-contact and non-line-of-sight of sensing of the physical world, therefore, it makes RF unique sensing modality that has found applications in automotive sensing, smart-home sensing, health monitoring, and many other applications. ...
Comments
Information & Contributors
Information
Published In
October 2023
424 pages
ISBN:9798400700965
DOI:10.1145/3586182
Copyright © 2023 Owner/Author.
Permission to make digital or hard copies of part or all of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for third-party components of this work must be honored. For all other uses, contact the Owner/Author.
Sponsors
Publisher
Association for Computing Machinery
New York, NY, United States
Publication History
Published: 29 October 2023
Check for updates
Author Tags
Qualifiers
- Demonstration
- Research
- Refereed limited
Conference
UIST '23: The 36th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
October 29 - November 1, 2023
CA, San Francisco, USA
Acceptance Rates
Overall Acceptance Rate 355 of 1,733 submissions, 20%
Upcoming Conference
Contributors
Other Metrics
Bibliometrics & Citations
Bibliometrics
Article Metrics
- 0Total Citations
- 150Total Downloads
- Downloads (Last 12 months)70
- Downloads (Last 6 weeks)9
Reflects downloads up to 05 Mar 2025
Other Metrics
Citations
View Options
Login options
Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.
Sign inFull Access
View options
View or Download as a PDF file.
PDFeReader
View online with eReader.
eReaderHTML Format
View this article in HTML Format.
HTML Format