Acting by hand: Informing interaction design for the periphery of people’s attention

Bakker, Saskia; Hoven, Elise van den; Eggen, Berry

doi:10.1016/j.intcom.2012.04.001

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“…The friction between this design goal and the aim for continued interactions is discussed further on. For the conceptual design we relied on the insight that many continued interactions (e.g., fiddling with food, cups, and tabletop games) easily become peripheral in a conversation [25].…”

Section: Design Considerationsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vuur: Exploring Shared Interaction with Light

2015

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Abstract:As LED lighting technology becomes omnipresent, lighting environments become more advanced and allow for adjusting various parameters such as color, brightness, and saturation. This poses challenges for interaction design, particularly when lighting environments are shared between multiple users. This paper presents "Vuur": a shared physical interface with which users can control lighting in meeting room environments through gestures on the interface's surface. A research-through-design exploration involving five variations of an experienceable Vuur prototype revealed that the interface enabled groups of participants to explore, and reach consensus about, shared lighting preferences. The findings are presented in four themes that emerged from qualitative analysis of the performed user studies: lighting needs, continued interaction, peripheral interaction, and shared interface. This early exploration of shared interaction with light lays out opportunities and insights for tangible and gestural interaction in the emerging domain of interactive lighting systems.

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Vuur: Exploring Shared Interaction with Light

2015

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“…Bakker et al [2] analyzed how people use the periphery of attention in everyday life and consider three types of peripheral tasks -sensorial, cognitive and bodily -with most of them being bodily and carried out by the hands. They further clustered activities into four categories, main activities, temporary side activities internally triggered, temporary side activities externally triggered and ongoing side activities.…”

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“…Peripheral Task Type: Based on Bakker et al [2], tasks can be bodily (involving hands or body), sensorial (mainly visual or auditory) or cognitive (beyond the mere intention of carrying out the task). When covering several types, the emphasis between them might differ.…”

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Everyday peripheral tasks vs. digital peripheral tasks

Hausen

Loehmann

Lehmann

2014

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Peripheral interaction is very common in everyday interaction with the physical world. We seemingly effortlessly tie our shoe laces while being fully engaged in a conversation or stir the soup on the stove while reading the recipe. Recently researchers started to build on this human capability of dividing attention and develop digital devices that also are intended to be operated in the attentional (and visual) periphery. However, evaluating to which extent a device indeed moves into the periphery is hard to assess. This work aims at investigating everyday peripheral tasks with the physical world to offer insights on their effect on computer-based work and act as comparison for digital peripheral devices.

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“…Current projects in this domain primarily use devices, which are grasped and then manipulated (e.g., Fireflies [8], PolyTags [26]). This is a logical choice as many peripheral interactions in our (non-digital) daily life are carried out with the hands (e.g., tying shoe laces while talking) [6]. However, other types of manual input, such as touch or freehand gestures, are hardly explored up to now for peripheral interaction.…”

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Comparing Input Modalities for Peripheral Interaction: A Case Study on Peripheral Music Control

Hausen¹,

Richter²,

Hemme³

et al. 2013

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. In graphical user interfaces, every application usually asks for the user's full attention during interaction with it. Even marginal side activities often force the user to switch windows, which results in attention shifts and increased cognitive load. Peripheral interaction addresses this problem by providing input facilities in the periphery of the user's attention by relying on divided attention and human capabilities such as proprioception and spatial memory. Recent work shows promising results by shifting tasks to the periphery for parallel task execution. Up to now, most of these interfaces rely on tag-based objects, tokens or wearable devices, which need to be grasped and manipulated, e.g., by turning, moving or pressing the device.To explore this design space further, we implemented three modalities for peripheral interaction with a desktop audio player application -graspable interaction, touch and freehand gestures. In an eight-week in-situ deployment, we compared the three modalities to each other and to media keys (as the state-ofthe-art approach). We found that all modalities can be successfully used in the (visual and attentional) periphery and reduce the amount of cognitive load when interacting with an audio player.With this work we intend to (1) illustrate the variety of possible modalities beyond graspable interfaces, (2) give insights on manual peripheral interaction in general and the respective modalities in particular and (3) elaborate on paper based prototypes for the evaluation of peripheral interaction.

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Acting by hand: Informing interaction design for the periphery of people’s attention

Cited by 19 publications

References 40 publications

Vuur: Exploring Shared Interaction with Light

Vuur: Exploring Shared Interaction with Light

Everyday peripheral tasks vs. digital peripheral tasks

Comparing Input Modalities for Peripheral Interaction: A Case Study on Peripheral Music Control

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