What Caused That Touch? Expressive Interaction with a Surface through Fiduciary-Tagged Gloves

Marquardt, N., Kiemer, J. and Greenberg, S. (2010)
What Caused That Touch? Expressive Interaction with a Surface through Fiduciary-Tagged Gloves. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces - ACM ITS'2010. (Saarbruecken, Germany), ACM Press, pages 139-142, plus video, November 7-10. Earlier version as Report 2010-964-13 (paper) and Report 2010-965-14 (video).

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Abstract

The hand has incredible potential as an expressive input device. Yet most touch technologies imprecisely recognize limited hand parts (if at all), usually by inferring the hand part from the touch shapes. We introduce the fiduciary-tagged glove as a reliable, inexpensive, and very expressive way to gather input about: (a) many parts of a hand (fingertips, knuckles, palms, sides, backs of the hand), and (b) to discriminate between one person's or multiple peoples' hands. Examples illustrate the interaction power gained by being able to identify and exploit these various hand parts.

Keywords

Surfaces, touch, gestures, postures, gloves, fiduciary tags, multi user

Bibtex entry

@INPROCEEDINGS { 2010-WhatCausedThatTouch.ITS,
CLASS = { CONFARTICLE },
AUTHOR = { Marquardt, N. and Kiemer, J. and Greenberg, S. },
TITLE = { What Caused That Touch? Expressive Interaction with a Surface through Fiduciary-Tagged Gloves },
YEAR = { 2010 },
MONTH = { November 7-10 },
BOOKTITLE = { Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces - ACM ITS'2010 },
PUBLISHER = { ACM Press },
ADDRESS = { Saarbruecken, Germany },
PAGES = { 139-142, plus video },
NOTE = { Earlier version as Report 2010-964-13 (paper) and Report 2010-965-14 (video) },
KEYWORDS = { Surfaces, touch, gestures, postures, gloves, fiduciary tags, multi user },
}