Designing guiding systems for gesture-based interaction

Abstract

2D or 3D gesture commands are still not routinely adopted, despite the technological advances for tracking gestures. The fact that gesture commands are not self-revealing is a bottleneck for this adoption. Guiding novice users is therefore crucial in order to reveal what commands are available and how to trigger them. However guiding systems are mainly designed in an ad hoc manner. Even if isolated design characteristics exist, they concentrate on a limited number of guidance aspects. We hence present a design space that unifies and completes these studies by providing a coherent set of issues for designing the behavior of a guiding system. We distinguish Feedback and Feedforward and consider four questions: When, What, How and Where. In order to leverage efficient use of our design space, we provide an online tool and illustrate with scenarios how practitioners can use it.

A tool for optimizing the use of a large design space for gesture guiding systems

“…The design space aims at characterizing the behavior of gesture guiding systems [5]. The design space is composed of 35 axes organized according to two categories: one dedicated to the feedback mechanism and one dedicated to the feedforward mechanism.…”

“…CONCLUSION We have presented an interactive tool for leveraging the use of a design space for gesture guiding systems. The design space, on which the tool is based, aims at characterizing the behavior of gesture guiding systems [5]. It defines 35 axes, 115 design options and currently classifies 46 systems.…”

“…In order to optimize the use of our design space [5] for gesture guiding systems, we present an online tool available at http://iihm.imag.fr/delamare/guidance/.…”

“…We first briefly recall the two main categories of the design space for which the tool has been built [5]. We then present the four services of the tool and illustrate how practitioners can use these services.…”

Design and evaluation of novel gesture-centric interaction models in smart spaces

“…The design of the system did not consider self-revealing of gesture commands so that novice users will not know what gestures are available and how to trigger them. The work [25] argues that a gesture guiding system is critical to the adoption of gesture commands and gesture-based interaction. It provides a design space that has a unified framework and organizes a set of design issues along axes.…”