More Web Proxy on the site http://driver.im/

research-article

One-Handed Bend Interactions with Deformable Smartphones

Authors:

Audrey Girouard,

Farshad Daliri,

Alexander Keith Eady,

Jerome PasqueroAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 1509 - 1518

https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702513

Published: 18 April 2015 Publication History

Abstract

Smartphones are becoming larger, mainly because bigger screens offer a better experience for viewing content. One drawback of larger screens is that they make single-hand interactions difficult because of hard to reach touch targets and of the need to re-grip the device, both factors significantly reducing their usability. Flexible smartphones offer an opportunity for addressing this issue. We first set out to determine the use of common single-hand mobile interactions through an online survey. Then, we designed and evaluated one-handed deformable gestures that offer the potential for addressing the finger reach limitation on large smartphones. We identified that the top right up bend and the center squeeze up gestures are the fastest and preferred gestures. We found no hand preference, which indicates that the gestures could be implemented to fit the needs of a wider range of the population, instead of favoring right-handed users. Finally, we discuss the impact on deformable gestures on one-handed interactions issues.

Supplementary Material

MP4 File (p1509.mp4)

Download
128.78 MB

References

[1]

Ahmaniemi, T., Kildal, J., and Haveri, M. What is a device bend gesture really good for? Proc. CHI, (2014), 3503--3512.

Digital Library

[2]

Balakrishnan, R. and Fitzmaurice, G. Exploring interactive curve and surface manipulation using a bend and twist sensitive input strip. Proc. Interactive 3D graphics, (1999), 111--119.

Digital Library

[3]

Bergstrom-Lehtovirta, J. and Oulasvirta, A. Modeling the functional area of the thumb on mobile touchscreen surfaces. Proc. CHI, (2014), 1991--2000.

Digital Library

[4]

Boring, S., Ledo, D., Chen, X.A., Marquardt, N., Tang, A., and Greenberg, S. The Fat Thumb: Using the Thumb's Contact Size for Single-Handed Mobile Interaction. Proc. MobileHCI, (2012), 39--48.

Digital Library

[5]

Burstyn, J. FlexView: An Evaluation of Depth Navigation on Deformable Mobile Devices. Proc. TEI, (2012), 193--200.

Digital Library

[6]

Dijkstra, R., Perez, C., and Vertegaal, R. Evaluating effects of structural holds on pointing and dragging performance with flexible displays. Proc. CHI, (2011), 1293--1302.

Digital Library

[7]

Gallant, D., Seniuk, A., and Vertegaal, R. Towards more paper-like input: flexible input devices for foldable interaction styles. Proc. UIST, (2008), 283--286.

Digital Library

[8]

Holman, D., Hollatz, A., Banerjee, A., and Vertegaal, R. Unifone: Designing for auxiliary finger input in onehanded mobile interactions. Proc. TEI, (2013), 177--184.

Digital Library

[9]

Karlson, A. and Bederson, B. ThumbSpace: Generalized One-handed Input for Touchscreen-based Mobile Devices. Proc. INTERACT, (2007), 324--338.

Digital Library

[10]

Kildal, J., Paasovaara, S., and Aaltonen, V. Kinetic Device?: Designing Interactions with a Deformable Mobile Interface. Proc. CHI EA, (2012), 1871--1876.

Digital Library

[11]

Kildal, J. Interacting with deformable user interfaces: effect of material stiffness and type of deformation gesture. Haptic and Audio Interaction Design, (2012), 71--80.

Digital Library

[12]

Kim, S., Yu, J., and Lee, G. Interaction Techniques for Unreachable Objects on the Touchscreen. Proc. OzCHI, (2012), 295--298.

Digital Library

[13]

Lahey, B., Girouard, A., Burleson, W., and Vertegaal, R. PaperPhone: Understanding the Use of Bend Gestures in Mobile Devices with Flexible Electronic Paper Displays. Proc. CHI, (2011), 1303--1312.

Digital Library

[14]

Lee, S., Lim, Y., and Lee, K.-P. Exploring the effects of size on deformable user interfaces. Proc. CHI, (2012), 89.

Digital Library

[15]

Lee, S., Maeng, S., Kim, D., Lee, K., and Lee, W. FlexRemote: Exploring the effectiveness of deformable user interface as an input device for TV. Proc. HCII, (2011), 62--65.

[16]

Lee, S.-S., Kim, S., Jin, B., et al. How Users Manipulate Deformable Displays as Input Devices. Proc. CHI, (2010), 1647.

Digital Library

[17]

Lo, J. and Girouard, A. Fabricating Bendy: Design and Development of Deformable Prototypes. IEEE Pervasive Special Issue on Fabrication and Printing 13, 3 (2014), 40--46.

[18]

Miyaki, T. and Rekimoto, J. GraspZoom: zooming and scrolling control model for single-handed mobile interaction. Proc. MobileHCI, (2009).

Digital Library

[19]

Roudaut, A. and Huot, S. TapTap and MagStick?: Improving One-Handed Target Acquisition on Small Touch-screens. Proc. AVI, (2008), 146--153.

Digital Library

[20]

Schwesig, C., Poupyrev, I., and Mori, E. Gummi: A Bendable Computer. Proc. CHI, (2004), 263--270.

Digital Library

[21]

Spelmezan, D., Appert, C., Chapuis, O., and Pietriga, E. Controlling widgets with one power-up button. Proc. UIST, (2013), 71--74.

Digital Library

[22]

Spelmezan, D., Appert, C., Chapuis, O., and Pietriga, E. Side pressure for bidirectional navigation on small devices. Proc. MobileHCI, (2013), 11--20.

Digital Library

[23]

Steimle, J., Jordt, A., and Maes, P. Flexpad?: Highly Flexible Bending Interactions for Projected Handheld Displays. Proc. CHI, (2013).

Digital Library

[24]

Warren, K., Lo, J., Vadgama, V., and Girouard, A. Bending the Rules: Bend Gesture Classification for Flexible Displays. Proc. CHI, (2013).

Digital Library

[25]

Watanabe, J., Mochizuki, A., and Horry, Y. Bookisheet: Bendable Device for Browsing Content Using the Metaphor of Leafing Through the Pages. Proc. UbiComp, (2008), 360--369.

Digital Library

[26]

Wightman, D., Ginn, T., and Vertegaal, R. BendFlip: Examining Input Techniques for Electronic Book Readers with Flexible Form Factors. Proc. INTERACT, (2011), 117--133.

Digital Library

[27]

Wilson, G., Brewster, S., and Halvey, M. Towards utilising one-handed multi-digit pressure input. Proc. CHI EA, (2013), 1317--1322.

Digital Library

[28]

Ye, Z. and Khalid, H. Cobra: Flexible Displays for Mobile Gaming Scenarios. Proc. CHI EA, (2010), 4363--4367.

Digital Library

[29]

Yu, N.-H., Huang, D.-Y., Hsu, J.-J., and Hung, Y.-P. Rapid Selection of Hard-to-Access Targets by Thumb on Mobile Touch-Screens. Proc. MobileHCI, (2013), p. 400.

Digital Library

Cited By

Eady AGuerrero ACheung VThue DGirouard A(2024)BendAide: A Deformable Interface to Augment Touchscreen Mobile DevicesProceedings of the 50th Graphics Interface Conference10.1145/3670947.3670960(1-10)Online publication date: 3-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3670947.3670960
Cheng QTian XLiao FChen TChen XWang ZDong YLiu Y(2024)Enhancing Mobile Interaction: Practical Insights from Smartphone and Smartwatch IntegrationAdjunct Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3640471.3680451(1-9)Online publication date: 21-Sep-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3640471.3680451
Yeh YIrudayaraj AVogel D(2024)Single-handed Folding Interactions with a Modified Clamshell Flip PhoneProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642554(1-14)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642554
Show More Cited By

Index Terms

One-Handed Bend Interactions with Deformable Smartphones
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design

Recommendations

FlexStylus: A Deformable Stylus for Digital Art
CHI EA '16: Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

The FlexStylus is a prototype system that embeds sensors measuring analog flex input in a computer stylus. Through fiber optic sensing, the device detects both absolute extent and angle of flexion. The device was designed to allow these two channels of ...
Gesture Action Mapping for Deformation-based One-handed Landscape Mode Interaction with Flexible Smartphone-sized Devices
IndiaHCI '21: Proceedings of the 12th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction

This paper presents a user study investigating the effect of directional cues and ease of performing deformation gestures on gesture action mappings. We selected four gestures of one-handed landscape mode interaction and twelve actions associated with ...
One-Handed Interaction Technique for Single-Touch Gesture Input on Large Smartphones
SUI '19: Symposium on Spatial User Interaction

We propose a one-handed interaction technique using cursor based on touch pressure to enable users to perform various single-touch gestures such as a tap, swipe, drag, and double-tap on unreachable targets. In the proposed technique, cursor mode is ...

Comments

Please enable JavaScript to view thecomments powered by Disqus.

Information & Contributors

Information

Published In

cover image ACM Conferences

CHI '15: Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2015

4290 pages

ISBN:9781450331456

DOI:10.1145/2702123

General Chairs:
Bo Begole
Huawei, USA
,
Jinwoo Kim
Yonsei University, Korea
,
Program Chairs:
Kori Inkpen
Microsoft Research, USA
,
Woontack Woo
KAIST, Korea

Copyright © 2015 ACM.

Permission to make digital or hard copies of all or part of this work for personal or classroom use is granted without fee provided that copies are not made or distributed for profit or commercial advantage and that copies bear this notice and the full citation on the first page. Copyrights for components of this work owned by others than the author(s) must be honored. Abstracting with credit is permitted. To copy otherwise, or republish, to post on servers or to redistribute to lists, requires prior specific permission and/or a fee. Request permissions from [email protected].

Sponsors

SIGCHI: ACM Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interaction

Publisher

Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

Publication History

Published: 18 April 2015

Permissions

Request permissions for this article.

Request Permissions

Check for updates

Author Tags

Qualifiers

Research-article

Funding Sources

Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

Conference

CHI '15

Sponsor:

SIGCHI

CHI '15: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 18 - 23, 2015

Seoul, Republic of Korea

Acceptance Rates

CHI '15 Paper Acceptance Rate 486 of 2,120 submissions, 23%;

Overall Acceptance Rate 6,199 of 26,314 submissions, 24%

Upcoming Conference

CHI 2025

Sponsor:
sigchi

ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 26 - May 1, 2025

Yokohama , Japan

Contributors

Other Metrics

View Article Metrics

Bibliometrics & Citations

Bibliometrics

Article Metrics

32
Total Citations
View Citations
716
Total Downloads

Downloads (Last 12 months)38
Downloads (Last 6 weeks)1

Reflects downloads up to 21 Dec 2024

Other Metrics

View Author Metrics

Citations

Cited By

Eady AGuerrero ACheung VThue DGirouard A(2024)BendAide: A Deformable Interface to Augment Touchscreen Mobile DevicesProceedings of the 50th Graphics Interface Conference10.1145/3670947.3670960(1-10)Online publication date: 3-Jun-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3670947.3670960
Cheng QTian XLiao FChen TChen XWang ZDong YLiu Y(2024)Enhancing Mobile Interaction: Practical Insights from Smartphone and Smartwatch IntegrationAdjunct Proceedings of the 26th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3640471.3680451(1-9)Online publication date: 21-Sep-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3640471.3680451
Yeh YIrudayaraj AVogel D(2024)Single-handed Folding Interactions with a Modified Clamshell Flip PhoneProceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642554(1-14)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642554
Lee LYau YHui P(2024)Perceived User Reachability in Mobile UIs Using Data Analytics and Machine LearningInternational Journal of Human–Computer Interaction10.1080/10447318.2024.2327199(1-24)Online publication date: 25-Mar-2024
https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2024.2327199
Borah PSorathia K(2023)Investigating user performance and preference for two magnitude levels of size and angle of bend on a smartphone-sized flexible deviceBehaviour & Information Technology10.1080/0144929X.2023.2245062(1-27)Online publication date: 13-Sep-2023
https://doi.org/10.1080/0144929X.2023.2245062
Yin JBai SHan YZhang XDeng SWang S(2021)The Study of Bending and Twisting Input Modalities in Deformable InterfacesElectronics10.3390/electronics1023299110:23(2991)Online publication date: 1-Dec-2021
https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics10232991
Borah PSeth JSorathia K(2021)Gesture Action Mapping for Deformation-based One-handed Landscape Mode Interaction with Flexible Smartphone-sized DevicesProceedings of the 12th Indian Conference on Human-Computer Interaction10.1145/3506469.3506470(1-10)Online publication date: 19-Nov-2021
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3506469.3506470
Lee SKyung G(2021)How Wide Is Enough? Effects of Screen Height, Task Type, and Hand Length on Rollable Display RequirementsIEEE Access10.1109/ACCESS.2021.30955029(121076-121086)Online publication date: 2021
https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2021.3095502
Wang YLin TYu JWang LHe JKe L(2021)Current Status of User Experience of the Keyboard on Smartphones: An Overall Questionnaire AnalysisHCI International 2021 - Late Breaking Papers: Multimodality, eXtended Reality, and Artificial Intelligence10.1007/978-3-030-90963-5_14(168-182)Online publication date: 11-Nov-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90963-5_14
Borah PSorathia KSarcar S(2021)User-defined Bend Gesture Completion Strategies for Discrete and Continuous InputsHuman-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 202110.1007/978-3-030-85613-7_14(192-202)Online publication date: 26-Aug-2021
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85613-7_14
Show More Cited By

View Options

Login options

Check if you have access through your login credentials or your institution to get full access on this article.

Full Access

Get this Publication

View options

PDF

View or Download as a PDF file.

eReader

View online with eReader.

Media

Figures

Other

Tables

View Table of Contents