Due to the recent advances in technologies for gesture recognition, midair gestures can be considered the interface of the future in a large number of applications. However, designing effective interfaces with midair gestures is not an easy task because the design is application dependent and it must fulfill many requirements at the same time. Despite the availability of general guidelines in the literature, clear and well-established procedures for the optimal design of midair gesture-based interfaces are, to date, not available and remain an open issue. The main contribution of this paper is a user-centered modular framework, which integrates existing and novel methods. It supports the designer considering multiple aspects including ergonomics, memorability, and specific user requirements tailored to the application scenario. The framework involves three design steps and a final validation step, also supported by dedicated software. We tested with success the proposed framework in an industrial case study, where technicians must easily access technical information by browsing digital manuals during maintenance operations.

A User-Centered Framework for Designing Midair Gesture Interfaces / Uva, Antonio Emmanuele; Fiorentino, Michele; Manghisi, Vito Modesto; Boccaccio, Antonio; Debernardis, Saverio; Gattullo, Michele; Monno, Giuseppe. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON HUMAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS. - ISSN 2168-2291. - STAMPA. - 49:5(2019), pp. 8738870.421-8738870.429. [10.1109/THMS.2019.2919719]

A User-Centered Framework for Designing Midair Gesture Interfaces

Antonio Emmanuele Uva;Michele Fiorentino;Vito Modesto Manghisi;Antonio Boccaccio;Saverio Debernardis;Michele Gattullo;Giuseppe Monno
2019-01-01

Abstract

Due to the recent advances in technologies for gesture recognition, midair gestures can be considered the interface of the future in a large number of applications. However, designing effective interfaces with midair gestures is not an easy task because the design is application dependent and it must fulfill many requirements at the same time. Despite the availability of general guidelines in the literature, clear and well-established procedures for the optimal design of midair gesture-based interfaces are, to date, not available and remain an open issue. The main contribution of this paper is a user-centered modular framework, which integrates existing and novel methods. It supports the designer considering multiple aspects including ergonomics, memorability, and specific user requirements tailored to the application scenario. The framework involves three design steps and a final validation step, also supported by dedicated software. We tested with success the proposed framework in an industrial case study, where technicians must easily access technical information by browsing digital manuals during maintenance operations.
2019
A User-Centered Framework for Designing Midair Gesture Interfaces / Uva, Antonio Emmanuele; Fiorentino, Michele; Manghisi, Vito Modesto; Boccaccio, Antonio; Debernardis, Saverio; Gattullo, Michele; Monno, Giuseppe. - In: IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON HUMAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS. - ISSN 2168-2291. - STAMPA. - 49:5(2019), pp. 8738870.421-8738870.429. [10.1109/THMS.2019.2919719]
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