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Weight-shifting mobiles: automatic balancing in mobile phones

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CHI EA '10: CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1753846.1753921

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This paper presents a new type of interaction support for mobile phones: Automatic balancing through weight-shift. It proposes that weight-shift in mobile phones could be used as to change the device's balancing behavior. The question that this technology can help us to explore is how our interaction with mobile phones in everyday life could change, once devices were able to actively change the way we hold them in our hands.

Various levels of interaction are proposed: Balancing based on angular tilt and counter-balancing of button-clicks, and, for a future implementation, balancing, supported through grasp recognition. We report a user study that assessed in how much such a system may help users to balance the a device equipped with the proposed system. It concludes that actuated balancing may be helpful in mobile interactions, but that it needs to be designed carefully.

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Weight-shifting mobiles: automatic balancing in mobile phones
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Haptic devices

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CHI EA '10: CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2010

2219 pages

ISBN:9781605589305

DOI:10.1145/1753846

General Chairs:
Elizabeth Mynatt
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Don Schoner
Georgia Institute of Technology
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Vienna University of Technology
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Scott Hudson
Carnegie Mellon University
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Keith Edwards
Georgia Tech
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Tom Rodden
University of Nottingham

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Huang KSun CHuang DChen YChang RHsu SYang CChen BBernhaupt RMueller FVerweij DAndres JMcGrenere JCockburn AAvellino IGoguey ABjørn PZhao SSamson BKocielnik R(2020)Glissade: Generating Balance Shifting Feedback to Facilitate Auxiliary Digital Pen InputProceedings of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3313831.3376505(1-13)Online publication date: 21-Apr-2020
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Ho J(2019)ClothSurface: Exploring a Low-Cost Prototyping Tool to Support Ideation for Shape DisplaysMultimodal Technologies and Interaction10.3390/mti30300643:3(64)Online publication date: 19-Sep-2019
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