Tablet Interaction with Grasping Hands, dissertation

 

Tablet Interaction with Grasping Hands was my dissertation topic that I investigated at T-Labs at the Technical University Berlin. I developed guidelines for a future device type: a tablet that allows ergonomic front- and back-of-device interaction. These guidelines are derived from empirical studies and developed to fit the users’ skills to the way the novel device type is held.
Three particular research areas that are relevant to develop design guidelines for tablet interaction have been investigated: ergonomic gestures, interaction areas, and pointing techniques. Corresponding publications are listed below.
The main contributions of this dissertation were a set of guidelines for interacting with hand-held devices on both device sides. These guidelines aim to help designers and developers of user interfaces to extend the interaction design space of mobile devices through increasing their input capabilities and enriching their design possibilities.

 

Publications related to my PhD topic on „Tablet Interaction with Grasping Hands“:

Katrin Wolf: Grasp Interaction with Tablets. Springer, 2015. ISBN: 978-3-319-13980-7 (Print) 978-3-319-13981-4 (Online).

Katrin Wolf, Markus Schneider, John Mercouris, and Christopher-Eyk Hrabia: Biomechanics of Front- and Back-of-Tablet Pointing with Grasping Hands. In International Journal of Mobile Human Computer Interaction (IJMHCI 2015).

Katrin Wolf, Robert Schleicher, and Michael Rohs: Ergonomic Characteristics of Gestures for Front- and Back-of-Tablets Interaction with Grasping Hands. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2014).

Katrin Wolf and Niels Henze: Comparing Pointing Techniques for Grasping Hands on Tablets. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI 2014).

Katrin Wolf, Robert Schleicher, and Michael Rohs: Touch Accessibility on the Front and the Back of held Tablet Devices. In Proceedings of EuroHaptics 2014.

Katrin Wolf, Robert Schleicher, Sven Kratz and Michael Rohs: Tickle: A Surface-independent Interaction Technique for Grasp Interfaces. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2013), 185-192.

Katrin Wolf, Christian Müller-Tomfelde, Kelvin Cheng and Ina Wechsung: Does proprioception guide back-of-device pointing as well as vision? In Proceedings of the ACM annual conference extended abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts (CHI 2012), 1739-1744.

Katrin Wolf: When hand and device melt into a unit: microgestures on grasped objects. In CHI Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2012), 959-962.

Katrin Wolf: Design space for finger gestures with hand-held tablets. In Proceedings of ACM international conference on Multimodal interaction (ICMI 2012), 325-328.

Katrin Wolf, Christian Müller-Tomfelde, Kelvin Chen, Ina Wechsung: PinchPad: performance of touch-based gestures while grasping devices. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2012), 103-110.

Katrin Wolf: What I grasp is what I control: interacting through grasp releases. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction (TEI 2012), 389-390.

Katrin Wolf, Anja Naumann, Michael Rohs, and Jörg Müller: Taxonomy of microinteractions: defining microgestures based on ergonomic and scenario-dependent requirements. In Proceedings of IFIP TC international conference on Human-computer interaction – Volume Part I (INTERACT 2011), 559-575.

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