Cross-Device Interaction via Micro-mobility and F-formations.

Marquardt, N., Hinckley, K. and Greenberg, S. (2012)
Cross-Device Interaction via Micro-mobility and F-formations.. In ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology - UIST'2012. (Cambridge, MA, USA), ACM Press, pages 13-22, October 7-10. Include video figure, duration 3:23. See also Ken Hinckley's Blog entry.

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Abstract

GroupTogether is a system that explores cross-device interaction using two sociological constructs. First, F-formations concern the distance and relative body orientation among multiple users, which indicate when and how people position themselves as a group. Second, micromobility describes how people orient and tilt devices towards one another to promote fine-grained sharing during co-present collaboration. We sense these constructs using: (a) a pair of overhead Kinect depth cameras to sense small groups of people, (b) low-power 8GHz band radio modules to establish the identity, presence, and coarse-grained relative locations of devices, and (c) accelerometers to detect tilting of slate devices. The resulting system supports fluid, minimally disruptive techniques for co-located collaboration by leveraging the proxemics of people as well as the proxemics of devices.

Keywords

Proxemics, F-formations, micro-mobility, tablets, sensors

Bibtex entry

@INPROCEEDINGS { 2012-GroupTogether.UIST,
CLASS = { CONFARTICLE },
AUTHOR = { Marquardt, N. and Hinckley, K. and Greenberg, S. },
TITLE = { Cross-Device Interaction via Micro-mobility and F-formations. },
BOOKTITLE = { ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology - UIST'2012 },
YEAR = { 2012 },
MONTH = { October 7-10 },
PAGES = { 13-22 },
PUBLISHER = { ACM Press },
ADDRESS = { Cambridge, MA, USA },
NOTE = { Include video figure, duration 3:23. See also Ken Hinckley's Blog entry },
KEYWORDS = { Proxemics, F-formations, micro-mobility, tablets, sensors },
URL = { http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=2380116.2380121 },
}