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Sandboxed interaction for casual users in shared spaces

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Andrea Albarelli,

Augusto CelentanoAuthors Info & Claims

AVI '14: Proceedings of the 2014 International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

Pages 97 - 104

https://doi.org/10.1145/2598153.2598176

Published: 27 May 2014 Publication History

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A simple and natural interaction is considered the most important feature of an interface for multiple impromptu users in public spaces. Intuitiveness and forthright feedback are key factors to enable a steep learning curve for untrained users that need to grasp the interaction model in a short time span. The lack of proper constraints, designed to restrict and guide the user actions, might hinder such intuitiveness, mainly when the number of users grows or their behavior is exceedingly unrestrained.

In this paper we introduce the idea of sandboxed interaction, a general concept that groups many flavors of physical and software-based measures aiming at guaranteeing a smooth and fitting interaction. To this end, we propose different types of sandboxes, suitable to handle different kind of interaction problems, and discuss a case study where several sandboxing measures have been put into use and evaluated within a real-world application scenario.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445332

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Sandboxed interaction for casual users in shared spaces
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Touch screens
    2. Interaction paradigms

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AVI '14: Proceedings of the 2014 International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces

May 2014

438 pages

ISBN:9781450327756

DOI:10.1145/2598153

General Chair:
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Politecnico di Milano (Italy)
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Charmaraman LGrevet Delcourt CKitamura YQuigley AIsbister KIgarashi TBjørn PDrucker S(2021)Prototyping for Social Wellbeing with Early Social Media UsersProceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3411764.3445332(1-15)Online publication date: 6-May-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3411764.3445332

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