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Characterising the Physicality of Everyday Buttons

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Jason Alexander,

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ITS '14: Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

Pages 205 - 208

https://doi.org/10.1145/2669485.2669519

Published: 16 November 2014 Publication History

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A significant milestone in the development of physically-dynamic surfaces is the ability for buttons to protrude outwards from any location on a touch-screen. As a first step toward developing interaction requirements for this technology we conducted a survey of 1515 electronic push buttons in everyday home environments. We report a characterisation that describes the features of the data set and discusses important button properties that we expect will inform the design of future physically-dynamic devices and surfaces.

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Characterising the Physicality of Everyday Buttons
1. Human-centered computing
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ITS '14: Proceedings of the Ninth ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces

November 2014

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ISBN:9781450325875

DOI:10.1145/2669485

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Technische Universität Dresden, Germany
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Queen's University, Canada
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University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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University of St. Andrews, UK

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