Tailored Controls: Creating Personalized Tangible User Interfaces from Paper
PubDate: November 2019
Teams: ETH Zurich,University of St. Gallen,Nokia Bell Labs
Writers: Vincent Becker; Sandro Kalbermatter; Simon Mayer; Gábor Sörös
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Abstract
User interfaces rarely adapt to the specific user preferences or the task at hand. We present a method that allows to quickly and inexpensively create personalized interfaces from plain paper. Users can cut out shapes and assign control functions to these paper snippets via a simple configuration interface. After configuration, control takes place entirely through the manipulation of the paper shapes, providing the experience of a tailored tangible user interface. The shapes and assignments can be dynamically changed during use. Our system is based on markerless tracking of the user’s fingers and the paper shapes on a surface using an RGBD camera mounted above the interaction space, which is the only hardware sensor required. Our approach and system are backed up by two studies where we determined what shapes and interaction abstractions users prefer, and verified that users can indeed employ our system to build real applications with paper snippet interfaces.