Hover Pad: interacting with autonomous and self-actuated displays in space

TY - GEN

T1 - Hover Pad

T2 - 27th annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

AU - Seifert, Julian

AU - Boring, Sebastian

AU - Winkler, Christian

AU - Schaub, Florian

AU - Schwab, Fabian

AU - Herrdum, Steffen

AU - Maier, Fabian

AU - Mayer, Daniel

AU - Rukzio, Enrico

N1 - Conference code: 27

PY - 2014/10/5

Y1 - 2014/10/5

N2 - Handheld displays enable flexible spatial exploration of information spaces - users can physically navigate through three-dimensional space to access information at specific locations. Having users constantly hold the display, however, has several limitations: (1) inaccuracies due to natural hand tremors; (2) fatigue over time; and (3) limited exploration within arm's reach. We investigate autonomous, self-actuated displays that can freely move and hold their position and orientation in space without users having to hold them at all times. We illustrate various stages of such a display's autonomy ranging from manual to fully autonomous, which - depending on the tasks - facilitate the interaction. Further, we discuss possible motion control mechanisms for these displays and present several interaction techniques enabled by such displays. Our Hover Pad toolkit enables exploring five degrees of freedom of self-actuated and autonomous displays and the developed control and interaction techniques. We illustrate the utility of our toolkit with five prototype applications, such as a volumetric medical data explorer.

AB - Handheld displays enable flexible spatial exploration of information spaces - users can physically navigate through three-dimensional space to access information at specific locations. Having users constantly hold the display, however, has several limitations: (1) inaccuracies due to natural hand tremors; (2) fatigue over time; and (3) limited exploration within arm's reach. We investigate autonomous, self-actuated displays that can freely move and hold their position and orientation in space without users having to hold them at all times. We illustrate various stages of such a display's autonomy ranging from manual to fully autonomous, which - depending on the tasks - facilitate the interaction. Further, we discuss possible motion control mechanisms for these displays and present several interaction techniques enabled by such displays. Our Hover Pad toolkit enables exploring five degrees of freedom of self-actuated and autonomous displays and the developed control and interaction techniques. We illustrate the utility of our toolkit with five prototype applications, such as a volumetric medical data explorer.

U2 - 10.1145/2642918.2647385

DO - 10.1145/2642918.2647385

M3 - Article in proceedings

SP - 139

EP - 147

BT - Proceedings of the 27th annual ACM symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

Y2 - 5 October 2014 through 8 October 2014

ER -