Title :

FlexStylus: leveraging flexion input for pen interaction

Author(s) :

Fellion, Nicholas [Auteur]
University of Ottawa [Ottawa]
Pietrzak, Thomas [Auteur]
Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille - UMR 9189 [CRIStAL]
Université de Lille, Sciences et Technologies
Computing tools to empower users [MJOLNIR]
Girouard, Audrey [Auteur]
University of Ottawa [Ottawa]

Conference title :

Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST 2017)

City :

Québec

Country :

Canada

Start date of the conference :

2017-10-22

Publication date :

2017

English keyword(s) :

Pen interaction
Input technique
Bending
Deformation
Augmented Stylus
Interactive Device
Input Device
Human - Computer Interaction

HAL domain(s) :

Informatique [cs]/Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

English abstract : [en]

FlexStylus, a flexible stylus, detects deformation of the barrel as a vector with both a rotational and an absolute value, providing two degrees of freedom with the goal of improving the expressivity of digital art using ...
Show more >FlexStylus, a flexible stylus, detects deformation of the barrel as a vector with both a rotational and an absolute value, providing two degrees of freedom with the goal of improving the expressivity of digital art using a stylus device. We outline the construction of the prototype and the principles behind the sensing method, which uses a cluster of four fibre-optic based deformation sensors. We propose interaction techniques using the FlexStylus to improve menu navigation and tool selection. Finally, we describe a study comparing users' ability to match a changing target value using a commercial pressure stylus and the FlexStylus' absolute deformation. When using the FlexStylus, users had a significantly higher accuracy overall. This suggests that deformation may be a useful input method for future work considering stylus augmentation.Show less >

Language :

Anglais

Peer reviewed article :

Oui

Audience :

Internationale

Popular science :

Non

Collections :

• Centre de Recherche en Informatique, Signal et Automatique de Lille (CRIStAL) - UMR 9189

Source :

Harvested from HAL