{"title":"Pushables: A DIY Approach for Fabricating Customizable and Self-Contained Tactile Membrane Dome Switches","authors":"Konstantin Klamka, Raimund Dachselt","doi":"10.1145/3266037.3266082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3266037.3266082","url":null,"abstract":"Momentary switches are important building blocks to prototype novel physical user interfaces and enable tactile, explicit and eyes-free interactions. Unfortunately, typical representatives, such as push-buttons or pre-manufactured membrane switches, often do not fulfill individual design requirements and lack customization options for rapid prototyping. With this work, we present Pushables, a DIY fabrication approach for producing thin, bendable and highly customizable membrane dome switches. Therefore, we contribute a three-stage fabrication pipeline that describes the production and assembly on the basis of prototyping methods with different skill levels making our approach suitable for technology-enthusiastic makers, researchers, fab labs and others who require custom membrane switches in small quantities. To demonstrate the wide applicability of Pushables, we present application examples from ubiquitous, mobile and wearable computing.","PeriodicalId":208006,"journal":{"name":"Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115136411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T. Kosch, Markus Funk, Daniel Vietz, Marc Weise, Tamara Müller, A. Schmidt
{"title":"DroneCTRL: A Tangible Remote Input Control for Quadcopters","authors":"T. Kosch, Markus Funk, Daniel Vietz, Marc Weise, Tamara Müller, A. Schmidt","doi":"10.1145/3266037.3266121","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3266037.3266121","url":null,"abstract":"Recent research has presented quadcopters to enable mid-air interaction. Using quadcopters to provide tactile feedback, navigation, or user input are the current scope of related work. However, most quadcopter steering systems are complicated to use for non-expert users or require an expensive tracking system for autonomous flying. Safety-critical scenarios require trained and expensive personnel to navigate quadcopters through crucial flight paths within narrow spaces. To simplify the input and manual operation of quadcopters, we present DroneCTRL, a tangible pointing device to navigate quadcopters. DroneCTRL resembles a remote control including optional visual feedback by a laser pointer and tangibility to improve the quadcopter control usability for non-expert users. In a preliminary user study, we compare the efficiency of hardware and software-based controller with DroneCTRL. Our results favor the usage of DroneCTRL with and without visual feedback to achieve more precision and accuracy.","PeriodicalId":208006,"journal":{"name":"Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology","volume":"120 10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115216036","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"I Know What You Want: Using Gaze Metrics to Predict Personal Interest","authors":"Jakob Karolus, Patrick Dabbert, Paweł W. Woźniak","doi":"10.1145/3266037.3266116","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3266037.3266116","url":null,"abstract":"In daily communications, we often use interpersonal cues - telltale facial expressions and body language - to moderate responses to our conversation partners. While we are able to interpret gaze as a sign of interest or reluctance, conventional user interfaces do not yet possess this possible benefit. In our work, we evaluate to what degree fixation-based gaze metrics can be used to infer a user's personal interest in the displayed content. We report on a study (N=18) where participants were presented with a grid array of different images, whilst being recorded for gaze behavior. Our system calculated a ranking for shown images based on gaze metrics. We found that all metrics are effective indicators of the participants' interest by analyzing their agreement with regard to the system's ranking. In an evaluation in a museum, we found that this translates to in-the-wild scenarios despite environmental constraints, such as limited data accuracy.","PeriodicalId":208006,"journal":{"name":"Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology","volume":"31 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-10-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133085045","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Denys J. C. Matthies, Laura Milena Daza Parra, B. Urban
{"title":"Scaling Notifications Beyond Alerts: From Subtly Drawing Attention up to Forcing the User to Take Action","authors":"Denys J. C. Matthies, Laura Milena Daza Parra, B. Urban","doi":"10.1145/3266037.3266096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1145/3266037.3266096","url":null,"abstract":"Research has been done in sophisticated notifications, still, devices today mainly stick to a binary level of information, while they are either attention drawing or silent. We propose scalable notifications, which adjust the intensity level reaching from subtle to obtrusive and even going beyond that level while forcing the user to take action. To illustrate the technical feasibility and validity of this concept, we developed three prototypes. The prototypes provided mechano-pressure, thermal, and electrical feedback, which were evaluated in different lab studies. Our first prototype provides subtle poking through to high and frequent pressure on the user's spine, which significantly improves back posture. In a second scenario, the user is able to perceive the overuse of a drill by an increased temperature on the palm of a hand until the heat is intolerable, forcing the user to eventually put down the tool. The last application comprises of a speed control in a driving simulation, while electric muscle stimulation on the users' legs, conveys information on changing the car's speed by a perceived tingling until the system forces the foot to move involuntarily. In conclusion, all studies' findings support the feasibility of our concept of a scalable notification system, including the system forcing an intervention.","PeriodicalId":208006,"journal":{"name":"Adjunct Proceedings of the 31st Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology","volume":"4 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-08-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121871903","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}