unistAR

Week 1 - Topic Selection

In this week, we investigated AR input devices already available on the market for topic selection and share their opinions about what they are interested in.

Four interesting categories in AR input devices

Prior to the topic selection, we categorized the AR input devices currently available on the market and picked four interesting items.

Low wearable

  • A wearable device with minimized body contact
  • Worn on the finger or palm, nail, finch
  • e.g. ring

Installed

  • A unit device can be added to AR device (Add-on)
  • Increase accessibility to AR
  • e.g. LEAP motion, GlassPass, WatchThru

Method / Software

  • Designed for non-hardware input method
  • e.g. SmoothMoves, Voice UI

Using daily device as input device

  • Utilize mobile device as AR input
  • e.g. using smartphone or smartwatch
Categories in AR input devices

Interests

Doyeon Kim:
Assistive technology, accessible design

Heena Kwag:
Improve reticle of current AR input method (e.g. HoloLens)

Minseop Kim:
A. Thumb-on form + twisted interaction (e.g. Finch)
B. Swipe or touch the panel in one hand with the other hand.
C. Use smartphone or smartwatch as a controller.

The common opinion was that it is better to be available in certain situations.

Literature reviews

GlassPass

Islam, M. D., Lee, D., Jahan, L. S., & Oakley, I. (2018, February). GlassPass: Tapping Gestures to Unlock Smart Glasses. In Proceedings of the 9th Augmented Human International Conference (p. 16). ACM.

Belt

Dobbelstein, D., Hock, P., & Rukzio, E. (2015, April). Belt: An unobtrusive touch input device for head-worn displays. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 2135-2138). ACM.

SmoothMoves

Esteves, A., Verweij, D., Suraiya, L., Islam, R., Lee, Y., & Oakley, I. (2017, October). SmoothMoves: Smooth Pursuits Head Movements for Augmented Reality. In Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (pp. 167-178). ACM.

WatchThru

Wenig, D., Schöning, J., Olwal, A., Oben, M., & Malaka, R. (2017, May). WatchThru: Expanding Smartwatch Displays with Mid-air Visuals and Wrist-worn Augmented Reality. In Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 716-721). ACM.