One-thumb Text Acquisition on Force-assisted Miniature Interfaces for Mobile Headsets

Lik Hang Lee, Yiming Zhu, Yui Pan Yau, Tristan Braud, Xiang Su, Pan Hui

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Abstract

Touchscreen interfaces are shrinking and even dis-appearing on mobile headsets. The existing approaches for text acquisition on mobile headsets, for instance, speech commands and hand gestures, are cumbersome and coarse. In this paper, we show the feasibility of interaction on a miniature area as small as 12 ∗ 13 mm2 that offers an input alternative on small form-factor devices such as smartwatches, smart rings, or the spectacles frames of mobile headsets. To this end, we propose and implement two interaction approaches, namely FRS and DupleFR, for acquiring textual contents on mobile headsets. Both approaches leverage force-assisted interaction on a miniature-size interface. They enable the user to acquire textual content with various granularities such as characters, words, sentences, paragraphs, and the entire text. After 8 sessions, 22 participants with FRS and DupleFR achieve the peak performance of respectively 11.455 and 10.611 seconds per textual acquisition with accuracy rates of 91.41% and 94.95%. Although FRS and DupleFR as indirect manipulations are disadvantageous, they are at least 37.06% faster than the commercial standards designated to direct manipulation on touchscreens.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication18th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2020
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781728146577
ISBN (Print)9781728146584
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Mar 2020
Externally publishedYes
Event18th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2020 - Austin, United States
Duration: 23 Mar 202027 Mar 2020

Publication series

Name18th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2020
ISSN (Print)2474-2503
ISSN (Electronic)2474-249X

Conference

Conference18th Annual IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications, PerCom 2020
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityAustin
Period23/03/2027/03/20

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Science Applications
  • Decision Sciences (miscellaneous)
  • Information Systems and Management
  • Media Technology

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