Angle sizes for pointing gestures

Charlotte Magnusson; Kirsten Rassmus-Gröhn; Delphine Szymczak

Angle sizes for pointing gestures

Charlotte Magnusson, Kirsten Rassmus-Gröhn, Delphine Szymczak

Certec - Rehabilitation Engineering and Design

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Abstract

One factor which can be expected to influence performance in applications where the user is expected to point a device in some direction to obtain information is the angle interval in which the user gets feedback. The present study was performed in order to get a better understanding of the influence of this angle interval on navigation performance, gestures and strategies in a more realistic outdoor setting. Results indicate that users are able to handle quite a wide range of angle intervals, although there are differences between narrow and wide intervals. We observe different gestures and strategies used by the users and provide some recommendations on suitable angle intervals. Finally, our observations support the notion that using this type of pointing gesture for navigation is intuitive and easy to use.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of Workshop on Multimodal Location Based Techniques for Extreme Navigation
Pages	33-36
Number of pages	4
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	Pervasive 2010 workshop: Multimodal Location Based Techniques for Extreme Navigation. - Helsinki, Finland Duration: 2010 May 17 → …

Conference

Conference	Pervasive 2010 workshop: Multimodal Location Based Techniques for Extreme Navigation.
Country/Territory	Finland
City	Helsinki
Period	2010/05/17 → …

Subject classification (UKÄ)

Human Computer Interaction

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Gesture
audio
navigation
pointing
angle
non-visual.

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Navigation by pointing to GPS locations
Magnusson, C., Rassmus-Gröhn, K. & Szymczak, D., 2011, In: Personal and Ubiquitous Computing.
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HaptiMap: HaptiMap - Haptic, Audio and Visual Interfaces for Maps and Location Based Services
Breidegard, B. (Researcher), Magnusson, C. (Researcher), Szymczak, D. (Researcher), Eftring, H. (Researcher), Rassmus-Gröhn, K. (Researcher), Hedvall, P.-O. (Researcher), Larsson, A. (Researcher), Tollmar, K. (Researcher), Molina, M. (Researcher), Stigmar, H. (Researcher) & Warell, A. (Researcher)
Swedish Government Agency for Innovation Systems (Vinnova), European Commission - FP7
2008/09/01 → 2012/08/31
Project: Research

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Magnusson, C , Rassmus-Gröhn, K & Szymczak, D 2010, Angle sizes for pointing gestures. in Proceedings of Workshop on Multimodal Location Based Techniques for Extreme Navigation. pp. 33-36, Pervasive 2010 workshop: Multimodal Location Based Techniques for Extreme Navigation., Helsinki, Finland, 2010/05/17. <http://www.english.certec.lth.se/haptics/HaptiMap/proceedings_combined_final_with_frontmatter.pdf#page38>

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Angle sizes for pointing gestures

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