This Week's Talks
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Formal Analysis,
Theory and Algorithms Research Group
GIST
Information
Retrieval
Embedded, Networked, and Distributed Systems
Research Corner
Cakes Talks
Week Beginning Monday February 6, 2012
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4:00, Sir Alwyn Williams Building, 423 Seminar Room
Social Media Platform Evaluation Framework - What works for you in an Emergency and Why?
Stefan Raue
[GIST]Gripping Interaction: Augmenting Mobile Devices with Force-Based Input
Graham Wilson
Evolution put a lot of work into opposable thumbs and, yet, here we are limiting ourselves to “touch” based input for mobile devices. Seriously, your cat can use touch-based interfaces (yes, there’s an app for that). It’s time to get a grip. In that spirit, this talk will give an overview of existing research on both our innate ability to control applied force through the hand as well as how that ability has been utilised for various guises of force-based input in mobile interaction. Examples will include multi-level physical and virtual buttons, phone-sandwiches, “paper” phones and other flexible devices as well as research from my own PhD work using rigid devices augmented with force-sensors. I have studied how walking influences our ability to control applied force, how one-handed multi-digit input on a mobile device could be designed to provide multi-channel input and whether eyes-free mobile force-based interaction is feasible, through the use of only audio feedback.