Analog input device physical characteristics

Lipscomb, James S.; Pique, Michael E.

doi:10.1145/155786.155794

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“…They also composed chains of connections between the physical parameters and the semantics of an application. Buxton [5] and Hinckley and Sinclair [16] expanded this classification to include devices that operate by touch (rather than a mechanical control), and Lipscomb and Pique [19] added several dimensions of physical device characteristics (including the behaviour of the movement axes, bounds of movement, and self-zeroing behaviour).…”

Section: Factors Influencing Scroll Controlmentioning

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Exposing and understanding scrolling transfer functions

Quinn

Cockburn

Casiez

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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Scrolling is controlled through many forms of input devices, such as mouse wheels, trackpad gestures, arrow keys, and joysticks. Performance with these devices can be adjusted by introducing variable transfer functions to alter the range of expressible speed, precision, and sensitivity. However, existing transfer functions are typically "black boxes" bundled into proprietary operating systems and drivers. This presents three problems for researchers: (1) a lack of knowledge about the current state of the field; (2) a difficulty in replicating research that uses scrolling devices; and (3) a potential experimental confound when evaluating scrolling devices and techniques. These three problems are caused by gaps in researchers' knowledge about what device and movement factors are important for scrolling transfer functions, and about how existing devices and drivers use these factors. We fill these knowledge gaps with a framework of transfer function factors for scrolling, and a method for analysing proprietary transfer functions-demonstrating how state of the art commercial devices accommodate some of the human control phenomena observed in prior studies.

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Section: Factors Influencing Scroll Controlmentioning

confidence: 99%

Exposing and understanding scrolling transfer functions

Quinn

Cockburn

Casiez

et al. 2012

Proceedings of the 25th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

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“…Following that contribution, Lipscomb and Pique [Lipscomb and Pique, 1993] created two graph structures, one for tabletop devices and another for elevated devices which are devices held by or mounted on the user. The graph nodes show device characteristics and the edges show how characteristics are related.…”

Section: Input Abstractionmentioning

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“…My approach was to simply have these as subclasses. A limitation is that the taxonomy in [Lipscomb and Pique, 1993] is just for analog devices. I included other classes such as Digital Switch and Speech Command.…”

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“…Lipscomb et al [Lipscomb and Pique, 1993], contribution was a classification based on the physical characteristics. I address that at the next level down the hierarchy with the subclasses:…”

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“…There are some super-classes however that do not fully fit. As an example, a position translation device cannot ever be an isometric device which is defined in [Lipscomb and Pique, 1993] as "devices that have such a large spring constant that they cannot be perceptibly moved".…”

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Context sensitive interaction interoperability for distributed virtual environments

Ahmed

Gračanin

Radics

2010

2010 IEEE Virtual Reality Conference (VR)

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The number and types of input devices and related interaction technique types are growing rapidly. Innovative input devices such as game controllers are no longer used just for games, propriety consoles and specific applications, they are also used in many distributed virtual environments, especially the so-called serious virtual environments.In this dissertation a distributed, service based framework is presented to offer contextsensitive interaction interoperability that can support mapping between input devices and suitable application tasks given the attributes (device, applications, users, and interaction techniques) and the current user context without negatively impacting performances of large scale distributed environments.The mapping is dynamic and context sensitive taking into account the context dimensions of both the virtual and real planes. What device or device component to use, how and when to use them depend on the application, task performed, the user and the overall context, including location and presence of other users. Another use of interaction interoperability is as a testbed for input devices, and interaction techniques making it possible to test reality based interfaces and interaction techniques with legacy applications.The dissertation provides a description how the framework provides these affordances and a discussion of motivations, goals and the addressed challenges. Several proof of the concept implementations were developed and an evaluation of the framework performance (in terms of system characteristics) demonstrates viability, scalability and negligible delays. To my great parents and wonderful wife.iii Acknowledgments A five years journey could not have been possible and bearable without great support and love. I went through a lot of tough times, questions and decisions and I could not have made it through all of this without being surrounded by amazing people.I would like to start first to thank my advisor Dr. Denis Gračanin. Dr. Gračanin had always been supportive and pushing the bar for me higher and higher, despite I didn't like it then but looking back I do really appreciate it. Through our long discussions, over Skype when I was back in Egypt and in person when I got on campus, I have learned a lot of invaluable things from him related and unrelated to my dissertation. He taught me that time management is the key and that I should always focus on quality not quantity. I cannot forget to thank him also for all the great chocolate and home made ice cream that we were always looking forward to.I would like to express my deepest appreciation to my dissertation committee. I always look up to Dr. Yong Cao for his exceptional industrial experience and switch to Academia again with great achievements grounded in practical engineering. He was so gracious to always share his insights and experiences with me. Dr. Woodrow Winchester III with the background in Industrial and Systems Engineering (including Human Computer Interaction) provided a valuable feedback from a different yet ...

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