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Ergonomic Interaction for Touch Floors

Authors:

Dominik Schmidt,

Johannes Frohnhofen,

Florian Meinel,

Mariya Perchyk,

Jonathan Striebel,

Patrick BaudischAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 3879 - 3888

https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702254

Published: 18 April 2015 Publication History

Abstract

The main appeal of touch floors is that they are the only direct touch form factor that scales to arbitrary size, therefore allowing direct touch to scale to very large numbers of display objects. In this paper, however, we argue that the price for this benefit is bad physical ergonomics: prolonged standing, especially in combination with looking down, quickly causes fatigue and repetitive strain. We propose addressing this issue by allowing users to operate touch floors in any pose they like, including sitting and lying. To allow users to transition between poses seamlessly, we present a simple pose-aware view manager that supports users by adjusting the entire view to the new pose. We support the main assumption behind the work with a simple study that shows that several poses are indeed more ergonomic for touch floor interaction than standing. We ground the design of our view manager by analyzing, which screen regions users can see and touch in each of the respective poses.

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Index Terms

Ergonomic Interaction for Touch Floors
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms

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DOI:10.1145/2702123

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Franz JMalloch JReilly D(2020)Compensating for Perspective-based Distortion on Large Interactive Floor Displays: the SpaceHopper Field ExperimentProceedings of the 2020 ACM International Conference on Interactive Media Experiences10.1145/3391614.3393651(45-54)Online publication date: 17-Jun-2020
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