Ergonomic Interaction for Touch Floors

Описание: Ergonomic Interaction for Touch Floors
Dominik Schmidt, Johannes Frohnhofen, Sven Knebel, Florian Meinel, Mariya Perchyk, Julian Risch, Jonathan Striebel, Julia Wachtel, Patrick Baudisch

CHI '15: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Session: Interacting with Floors & Situated Displays

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.

DOI:: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2702123.270...
WEB:: https://chi2015.acm.org/

Recorded at the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems in Seoul, Korea, April 18-23, 2015