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Touchless Interfaces For Public Displays

Vito GentileAlessio MaliziaAntonio GentileDario PirrelloSalvatore Sorce

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Computer scienceInterface (computing)Public displaysPush-button02 engineering and technologycomputer.software_genreTouchless interfaceGestural inputPublic displayHuman–computer interaction020204 information systemsHuman interface guidelinesUser interface design0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineeringGestural input; Public displays; Touchless interfaces; User interface design; Software; Human-Computer InteractionAvatarSettore ING-INF/05 - Sistemi Di Elaborazione Delle InformazioniFocus (computing)Multimedia020207 software engineeringUser interface designHuman-Computer InteractionTouchless interfacescomputerSoftwareDe facto standardGesture

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Public displays have lately become ubiquitous thanks to the decreasing cost of such technology and public policies supporting the development of smart cities. Depending on form factor, those displays might use touchless gestural interfaces that therefore are becoming more often the subject of public and private research. In this paper, we focus on touchless interactions with situated public displays, and introduce a pilot study on comparing two interfaces: an interface based on the Microsoft Human Interface Guidelines (HIG), a de facto standard in the field, and a novel interface, designed by us. Differently from the HIG-based one, our interface displays an avatar, which does not require any activation gestures to trigger actions. Our aim is to study how the two interfaces address the so-called interaction blindness --- the inability of the users to recognize the interactive capabilities of those displays. According to our pilot study, although providing a different approach, both interfaces has proven effective in the proposed scenario: a public display in a hall inside a University campus building.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2016-06-07Proceedings of the International Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
https://doi.org/10.1145/2909132.2909282