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Gestural interaction techniques for handheld devices combining accelerometers and multipoint touch screens

In this thesis, we address the question of gesture interaction on mobile device. These devices, now common, differ from conventional computers primarily by the input devices the user interact with (screen size small but tactile, various sensors such as accelerometers) as well as the context in which they are used. The work presented here is an exploration of the vast area of interaction techniques on these mobile devices. First we try to structure this space by focusing on the techniques based on accelerometers for which we propose a taxonomy. Its descriptive and discriminant power is validated by and the classification of thirty-seven interaction techniques in the literature. Second we focus on the achievement of gestural interaction techniques for these mobile devices. With TouchOver, we show that it is possible to take advantage of complementary two-channels input (touch screen and accelerometers) to add a state to the finger-drag, thus enriching the interaction. Finally, we focus on mobile device menus and offer a new form of sign language menus. We discuss their implementation with the GeLATI software library that allows their integration into a pre-existing GUI toolkit.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:CCSD/oai:tel.archives-ouvertes.fr:tel-00665047
Date28 September 2011
CreatorsScoditti, Adriano
PublisherUniversité de Grenoble
Source SetsCCSD theses-EN-ligne, France
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypePhD thesis

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