Touch skin: Proprioceptive input for small screen devices

Changhyeon Lee, Jaedong Lee, Gerard J. Kim

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Abstract

The smart watch, increasingly gaining popularity, has limited input and output capabilities due to its size and thus mostly used as a surrogate device to the smart phone. In this poster, we propose “Touch Skin (TS)” that enlarges the interaction space of the smart watch using the hand (or skin) surface and proprioceptive sense. While the input interface is displayed on the small smart watch screen, the interaction is carried out by touching on the larger hand surface to which the input interface elements (e.g. graphical buttons and keys) are mapped. We hypothesize that even though the display and interaction surface are separated, the humans are nevertheless able to perform competently based on one’s proprioceptive sense. While sensing for finger touch positions on the hand/ skin surface remains to be a technical hurdle, we first explore whether our hypothesis is valid through an enactment study comparing the performance the Touch Skin input to that of the nominal smart phones.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationHuman-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2015 - 15th IFIP TC 13 International Conference, Proceedings
EditorsMarco Winckler, Julio Abascal, Philippe Palanque, Simone Barbosa, Mirko Fetter, Tom Gross
PublisherSpringer Verlag
Pages607-610
Number of pages4
ISBN (Print)9783319227221
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2015
Event15th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human–Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2015 - Bamberg, Germany
Duration: 2015 Sept 142015 Sept 15

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume9299
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Other

Other15th IFIP TC 13 International Conference on Human–Computer Interaction, INTERACT 2015
Country/TerritoryGermany
CityBamberg
Period15/9/1415/9/15

Keywords

  • Proprioception
  • Smart watch
  • Touch screen

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Computer Science(all)

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