Cho, Sung-Jung and Murray-Smith, Roderick and Choi, Changkyu and Sung, Younghoon and Lee, Kwanghyeon and Kim, Yeun-Bae (2007) Dynamics of tilt-based browsing on mobile devices. In: Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems , April 28–May 3, 2007, San Jose, California, USA..

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Abstract

A tilt-controlled photo browsing method for small mobile devices is presented. The implementation uses continuous inputs from an accelerometer, and a multimodal (visual, audio and vibrotactile) display coupled with the states of this model. The model is based on a simple physical model, with its characteristics shaped to enhance usability. We show how the dynamics of the physical model can be shaped to make the handling qualities of the mobile device fit the browsing task. We implemented the proposed algorithm on Samsung MITs PDA with tri-axis accelerometer and a vibrotactile motor. The experiment used seven novice users browsing from 100 photos. We compare a tilt-based interaction method with a buttonbased browser and an iPod wheel. We discuss the usability performance and contrast this with subjective experience from the users. The iPod wheel has significantly poorer performance than button pushing or tilt interaction, despite its commercial popularity.

Item Type:	Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
Keywords:	Tilt dynamics; Photo browsing; Mobile interaction; Motion-based interaction; Accelerometer; User interfaces; CHI '07; Hamilton Institute.
Academic Unit:	Faculty of Science and Engineering > Computer Science Faculty of Science and Engineering > Research Institutes > Hamilton Institute
Item ID:	1706
Depositing User:	Hamilton Editor
Date Deposited:	01 Dec 2009 17:44
Refereed:	Yes
URI:	Publisher
Use Licence:	This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here

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