Using a gestural interface toolkit for tactile input to a dynamic virtual space

Schiphorst, Thecla; Lovell, Robb; Jaffe, Norman

doi:10.1145/506443.506581

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“…Although the examples discussed so far have focused on the position, shape, or movement of the fingers or hand on the surface, some work has looked at the tactile qualities of 2-D gesture input to provide gentler surface-based gestural interaction, such as stroking or petting (Schiphorst et al, 2002). In this case, a multifinger pressure sensitive tablet from Tactex Controls Inc. (Canada) was used to control virtual creatures in an artificial life environment using caressing gestures.…”

Section: Gestures With Fingers and Handsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Grasping gestures: Gesturing with physical artifacts

Hoven

Mazalek

2011

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Gestures play an important role in communication. They support the listener, who is trying to understand the speaker. However, they also support the speaker by facilitating the conceptualization and verbalization of messages and reducing cognitive load. Gestures thus play an important role in collaboration and also in problem-solving tasks. In human-computer interaction, gestures are also used to facilitate communication with digital applications, because their expressive nature can enable less constraining and more intuitive digital interactions than conventional user interfaces. Although gesture research in the social sciences typically considers empty-handed gestures, digital gesture interactions often make use of handheld objects or touch surfaces to capture gestures that would be difficult to track in free space. In most cases, the physical objects used to make these gestures serve primarily as a means of sensing or input. In contrast, tangible interaction makes use of physical objects as embodiments of digital information. The physical objects in a tangible interface thus serve as representations as well as controls for the digital information they are associated with. Building on this concept, gesture interaction has the potential to make use of the physical properties of hand-held objects to enhance or change the functionality of the gestures made. In this paper, we look at the design opportunities that arise at the intersection of gesture and tangible interaction. We believe that gesturing while holding physical artifacts opens up a new interaction design space for collaborative digital applications that is largely unexplored. We provide a survey of gesture interaction work as it relates to tangible and touch interaction. Based on this survey, we define the design space of tangible gesture interaction as the use of physical devices for facilitating, supporting, enhancing, or tracking gestures people make for digital interaction purposes, and outline the design opportunities in this space.

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Section: Gestures With Fingers and Handsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Grasping gestures: Gesturing with physical artifacts

Hoven

Mazalek

2011

AIEDAM

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“…It continues to be used in fields traditionally associated with the physical body, such as dance studies (Guest, 1984;William & Farnell, 1990), physical therapy (Bartenieff & Lewis, 1980), and drama (Newlove, 1993), and also has been applied in anthropology (Farnell, 1999;Lewis, 1995). Since the late 1970s, Laban movement theory has been applied to various fields of computing, such as motion recognition, computer animation, and artificial intelligence (e.g., Badler & Smoliar, 1979;Camurri et al, 2000;Schiphorst, Lovell, & Jaffe 2002;Swaminathan et al, 2009). More recently, it has been applied in the design of interactive products and systems for its ability to capture the relations between movement, expression, and emotion (Fagerberg, Ståhl, & Höök, 2003;Jensen, 2007;Ross & Wensveen, 2010).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

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2016

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Human Technology is an interdisciplinary, scholarly journal publishing innovative, peer-reviewed articles exploring the issues and challenges within human-technology interaction and the human role in all areas of our ICT-infused societies.Human Technology, published by the Agora Center, University of Jyväskylä, is distributed online without a charge. HUMAN-TECHNOLOGY CHOREOGRAPHIES: BODY, MOVEMENT, AND SPACE CHOREOGRAPHIES: AN EMERGING PERSPECTIVE FOR INTERACTION DESIGNIn interaction design and related disciplines, the focus of research tends toward technological objects rather than the movements relating to interacting with the objects. Even when movements are considered, the emphasis is placed on their instrumental value, that is, how movements have direct effect on the functions of technology. However, the emphasis of this thematic issue of Human Technology rests upon the design and use of technological objects. In other words, we, as editors of this special issue, were looking for submissions that emphasized intentional human movement in the physical and social lifeworld in which humans encounter technological and virtual artifacts. The term choreography here refers to meaningful continuums of movement that humans, as individuals or as groups, experience during interaction with technology (see also, e.g., Loke & Reinhardt, 2012;Parviainen, Tuuri, & Pirhonen, 2013; Parviainen, Tuuri, Pirhonen, Turunen, & Keskinen, 2013 Pirhonen, Tuuri, & Erkut 2 enable, limit, or control human movements and other behavior. Human-technology choreographies can involve anything from subtle finger movements to the movement of crowds in public spaces. A choreographic orientation, therefore, brings forth and makes explicit the opportunities and options that interaction designers have available for defining movements, movement qualities, and choreographies required when interfacing with the various devices so prevalent in contemporary living. Human movement is never a mere structure that could be handled without also affecting the inherent meanings it embodies.When we initiated this thematic issue, we sought contributions that challenge current thinking on and critically acknowledge the role of bodily movement as a basic element in a profound understanding of relationships between humans and technology. In the call for papers, we proposed choreography as a key concept through which the movement-centered phenomena present in interaction with technology could be better acknowledged, reflected on, and understood. We hoped the submissions would represent varying orientations on the subject, for example, interaction design, product design, architecture, phenomenology, or embodied cognition, as well as more broad cultural, societal, artistic, educational, or philosophical accounts. Reports on empirical studies as well as movement-centered reinterpretations of prior research and theories were explicitly welcomed.By the time the deadline for submissions passed, more than 20 interesting research reports were submitted for publication consi...

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“…To test this hypothesis, we developed the Molecular Control Toolkit, which supports gesture input using multiple consumer devices and provides an Application Programming Interface (API) to allow adaption for molecular graphics applications. In contrast to previous gesture toolkits [20,31,35], to our knowledge ours is the first to support multiple consumer devices while providing callbacks through a single interface for applications. Also, in contrast to previous work using affordable gesture recognition devices with molecular graphics [22,12,1,14,24], ours is the first to provide a sufficiently rich set of operations to be useful for most life scientists during day-to-day use, or while giving presentations.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%