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Better Grasp on pictures under glass: Comparing touch and tangible object manipulation using physical proxies

  • Mathieu Le Goc
  • , Pierre Dragicevic
  • , Samuel Huron
  • , Jeremy Boy
  • , Jean Daniel Fekete
  • INRIA Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique
  • Université Paris-Saclay
  • New York University

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Abstract

We introduce a novel method based on physical proxies for investigating fundamental differences between touch and tangible interfaces. This method uses physical chips to emulate the at, non-graspable objects that make up touch interfaces, in a way that supports direct comparison with tangible interfaces. We ran an experiment to test the effect of object thickness on participants' behavior, performance and subjective experience in spatial rearrangement tasks. We found that for the tasks tested, thick objects are faster but less accurate to operate, and that their graspability is only used occasionally. We also found that coarse manipulation of multiple thin objects is error-prone, an issue that only thick objects may allow to alleviate.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAVI 2016 - Proceedings of the 2016 International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
EditorsPaolo Buono, Rosa Lanzilotti, Maristella Matera
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery
Pages76-83
Number of pages8
ISBN (Electronic)9781450341318
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 7 Jun 2016
Externally publishedYes
Event13th ACM International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 2016 - Bari, Italy
Duration: 7 Jun 201610 Jun 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings of the Workshop on Advanced Visual Interfaces AVI
Volume07-10-June-2016

Conference

Conference13th ACM International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, AVI 2016
Country/TerritoryItaly
CityBari
Period7/06/1610/06/16

Keywords

  • Physical proxies
  • Tangible user interfaces
  • Touch interfaces

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