StrikeAPose : revealing mid-air gestures on public displays

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Walter, Robert ; Bailly, Gilles ; Müller, Jörg:
StrikeAPose : revealing mid-air gestures on public displays.
In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. - New York : ACM , 2013 . - pp. 841-850
ISBN 978-1-4503-1899-0
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/2470654.2470774

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We investigate how to reveal an initial mid-air gesture on interactive public displays. This initial gesture can serve as gesture registration for advanced operations. We propose three strategies to reveal the initial gesture: spatial division, temporal division, and integration. Spatial division permanently shows the gesture on a dedicated screen area. Temporal division interrupts the application to reveal the gesture. Integration embeds gesture hints directly in the application. We also propose a novel initial gesture called Teapot to illustrate our strategies. Our main findings from a laboratory and field study are: A large percentage of all users execute the gesture, especially with spatial division (56%). Users intuitively discover a gesture vocabulary by exploring variations of the Teapot gesture by themselves, as well as by imitating and extending other users’ variations.