PalmRC: leveraging the palm surface as an imaginary eyes-free television remote control

Dezfuli, Niloofar; Khalilbeigi, Mohammadreza; Huber, Jochen; Özkorkmaz, Murat; Mühlhäuser, Max

doi:10.1080/0144929x.2013.810781

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“…Touching the skin can be used as input for smart glasses [17], televisions or other remote displays [2,12], mobile phones [11], and auditory interfaces [6,14]. These interfaces do not display touch targets directly on the skin -users need to learn and recall where targets are located.…”

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Placing and Recalling Virtual Items on the Skin

Bergström-Lehtovirta

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Hornbæk

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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The human skin provides an ample, always-on surface for input to smart watches, mobile phones, and remote displays. Using touch on bare skin to issue commands, however, requires users to recall the location of items without direct visual feedback. We present an in-depth study in which participants placed 30 items on the hand and forearm and attempted to recall their locations. We found that participants used a variety of landmarks, personal associations, and semantic groupings in placing the items on the skin. Although participants most frequently used anatomical landmarks (e.g., fingers, joints, and nails), recall rates were higher for items placed on personal landmarks, including scars and tattoos. We further found that personal associations between items improved recall, and that participants often grouped important items in similar areas, such as family members on the nails. We conclude by discussing the implications of our findings for design of skin-based interfaces.

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Placing and Recalling Virtual Items on the Skin

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Hornbæk

2017

Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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“…Most of the sensing technologies, however, also allow and have been used for giving indirect input on the skin to off-skin displays [2,3,10,18,21]. PalmRC [2], for example, allows for using the palm as input surface for a distant television, and PalmType [18] as a keyboard for typing on smart glasses.…”

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“…For example, how users design mappings based on skin-specific landmarks [1], how they would align the hand to match the directions of a display [2], or how they would map a keyboard layout to the shape of the palm [5,18]. These studies cover one dimensional content, for instance, placing six to nine touch targets on the arm [10], local areas of skin on the palm [2,18], location-independent gestures [19,13,17], and non-visual content [1,5,6]. However, mappings for indirect touch input on the forearm for visual content on off-skin displays have not yet been established.…”

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“…PalmRC [2], for example, allows for using the palm as input surface for a distant television, and PalmType [18] as a keyboard for typing on smart glasses. Also the larger surface area of the forearm has been used to give input, for instance, to smart watches [9,13,21].…”

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“…With advances in on-skin sensing technologies, the forearm has become a prominent surface for providing touch input to off-skin displays, such as smart watches [12,21], mobile phones [10], smart glasses [18], and remote displays [2,11]. To perform input on off-skin displays, there needs to be a mapping between the forearm's surface and the display's coordinate system (i.e., which location on the forearm corresponds to which location on the display).…”

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Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Advances in sensing technologies allow for using the forearm as a touch surface to give input to off-skin displays. However, it is unclear how users perceive the mapping between an onskin input area and an off-skin display area. We empirically describe such mappings to improve on-skin interaction. We collected discrete and continuous touch data in a study where participants mapped display content from an AR headset, a smartwatch, and a desktop display to their forearm. We model those mappings and estimate input accuracy from the spreads of touch data. Subsequently, we show how to use the models for designing touch surfaces to the forearm for a given display area, input type, and touch resolution.

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PalmRC: leveraging the palm surface as an imaginary eyes-free television remote control

Cited by 21 publications

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