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Techniques for Interacting With Small Devices

Authors:
Javier Oliver
Begoña García

Keywords: interaction techniques; small device interaction

Abstract:
Digital mobile devices keep reducing their size as time goes by. The limiting factor is no longer battery size or electronics miniaturization, but the dimensions of the input and output hardware devices that mediate the communication between the user and the machine. In this paper, the difficulties of interacting with small screen devices are underlined and some of the most promising techniques to address this issue are explained. These techniques include the use of magnetic field detectors, mobile phone cameras to track movement, tangible interfaces and voice controlled virtual joysticks.

Pages: 129 to 132

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2012

Publication date: September 23, 2012

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4278

ISBN: 978-1-61208-236-3

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from September 23, 2012 to September 28, 2012