Waving to a touch interface: descriptive field study of a multipurpose multimodal public display

TY - GEN

T1 - Waving to a touch interface

T2 - 2nd ACM International Symposium on Pervasive Displays

AU - Jurmu, Marko

AU - Ogawa, Masaki

AU - Boring, Sebastian

AU - Riekki, Jukka

AU - Tokuda, Hideyuki

N1 - Conference code: 2

PY - 2013

Y1 - 2013

N2 - Multipurpose public displays are a promising platform, but more understanding is required in how users perceive and engage them. In this paper, we present and discuss results and findings from a two-day descriptive field trial with a multipurpose public display prototype called FluiD. Our main objective was to uncover emerging issues of interaction to inform future evaluations. During the field trial within a public research exhibition, people were able to freely interact with the prototype. Twenty-six persons filled out short questionnaires and gave free-form feedback. In addition, researchers in the vicinity of the display gathered observation data. Our main findings include the difficulties encountered with mid-air gesture commands, the lack of agency in case of larger interaction area, and the possibility for stepping out from the implicit-explicit continuum in the face of potential social conflicts.

AB - Multipurpose public displays are a promising platform, but more understanding is required in how users perceive and engage them. In this paper, we present and discuss results and findings from a two-day descriptive field trial with a multipurpose public display prototype called FluiD. Our main objective was to uncover emerging issues of interaction to inform future evaluations. During the field trial within a public research exhibition, people were able to freely interact with the prototype. Twenty-six persons filled out short questionnaires and gave free-form feedback. In addition, researchers in the vicinity of the display gathered observation data. Our main findings include the difficulties encountered with mid-air gesture commands, the lack of agency in case of larger interaction area, and the possibility for stepping out from the implicit-explicit continuum in the face of potential social conflicts.

U2 - 10.1145/2491568.2491571

DO - 10.1145/2491568.2491571

M3 - Article in proceedings

SN - 978-1-4503-2096-2

SP - 7

EP - 12

BT - PerDis '13

PB - Association for Computing Machinery

Y2 - 4 June 2013 through 5 June 2013

ER -