Investigating interaction with a ring form factor

Colley, Ashley; Inget, Virve; Rantala, Inka; Häkkilä, Jonna

doi:10.1145/3152832.3152870

Cited by 8 publications

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“…Duet [14], VibRing [3] and Expressy [68] leverage the smartwatch or smart ring to add expressiveness to touch-based interactions on a phone or tablet device. Digital digits [52] and "Ring Form Factor" [15] surveyed and explored the design space of smart rings for interaction. Webb et al [64] explored using wearable devices such as a smart ring as context for surface and penbased interaction.…”

Section: Wrist and Finger Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wrist

Yeo

Lee

Kim

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices and Services

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To better explore the incorporation of pointing and gesturing into ubiquitous computing, we introduce WRIST, an interaction and sensing technique that leverages the dexterity of human wrist motion. WRIST employs a sensor fusion approach which combines inertial measurement unit (IMU) data from a smartwatch and a smart ring. The relative orientation difference of the two devices is measured as the wrist rotation that is independent from arm rotation, which is also position and orientation invariant. Employing our test hardware, we demonstrate that WRIST affords and enables a number of novel yet simplistic interaction techniques, such as (i) macro-micro pointing without explicit mode switching and (ii) wrist gesture recognition when the hand is held in different orientations (e.g., raised or lowered). We report on two studies to evaluate the proposed techniques and we

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Section: Wrist and Finger Interactionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Wrist

Yeo

Lee

Kim

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices and Services

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“…Based on prior work using a ring for of-fnger interactions [7,8], we focus on the rotatory gestures (rotating the ring around its own axis on the same plane as the mobile device), which are easy to learn and perform, produce stable measurements and are unafected by the ring's orientation (which side is up). This confguration also allows magnets in other shapes as input, as long as they can be rotated stably.…”

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Tangible Around-Device Interaction Using Rotatory Gestures with a Magnetic Ring

Cheung

Girouard

2019

Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices and Services

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The majority of mobile applications use built-in touchscreens and/or accelerometers to provide direct ways for user inputs. Yet, the need to manipulate the device itself (e.g. touch, tilt) poses usability issues such as occlusion and inaccuracy. To address these issues, research proposed using the built-in magnetometer and magnets to facilitate around-device interactions. However, there is little evaluation in how this technique impacts performance and user experience beyond simple docking tasks. To fll this gap, we explored the mobile gameplay context by implementing an interface that uses rotatory gestures from a magnetic ring as input, and compared two control mappings (angular and linear) with touch and tilt in a usability study using a mobile game. We found that rotatory gestures with the ring, when mapped to angular controls, were on par with touch and superior over tilt, and engendered greater gameplay experience and sense of mapping. Based on our fndings, we discuss implications of using this technique for gameplay, as well as other applications.

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