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JoyHolder: Tangible Back-of-Device Mobile Interactions

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Alexander Keith Eady,

Audrey GirouardAuthors Info & Claims

ISS '19: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces

Pages 343 - 346

https://doi.org/10.1145/3343055.3360748

Published: 10 November 2019 Publication History

Abstract

One-handed mobile use, which is predominantly thumb-driven, presents interaction challenges like screen occlusion, reachability of far and inside corners, and an increased chance of dropping the device. We adopt a Research through Design approach around single-hand mobile interaction by exploring a variety of back-of-device tangibles (including a touchpad, scroller, magnetic button, push button, slider, stretchable spiral and a ring joystick). The latter 'joy'-stick was inspired from the recent popular but passive ring phone 'holders', which we combined into ?JoyHolder' - a joystick-based interactive phone holder for tangible back-of-device input interactions. We demonstrate our low-fidelity and medium-fidelity prototypes (using crafting and digital fabrication methods) and our interactive JoyHolder to encourage discussion on tangible back-of-device interactions. Preliminary insights from a pilot-study we ran reflects the hesitation for adopting some of these tangibles, the potential of others and the importance of physical feedback while using back-of-device input modalities.

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https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3567717

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JoyHolder: Tangible Back-of-Device Mobile Interactions
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction devices
      1. Haptic devices

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ISS '19: Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces

November 2019

450 pages

ISBN:9781450368919

DOI:10.1145/3343055

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Bongshin Lee
Microsoft Research, USA
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KAIST, South Korea
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University of Guelph, Canada
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Melanie Tory
Tableau Software, USA
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Jeonghyun Kim
Korea University, South Korea

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Tsuchida TFujita KIkematsu KSarcar STakashima KKitamura Y(2022)TetraForce: A Magnetic-Based Interface Enabling Pressure Force and Shear Force Input Applied to Front and Back of a SmartphoneProceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/35677176:ISS(185-206)Online publication date: 14-Nov-2022
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