Detecting users handedness for ergonomic adaptation of mobile user interfaces
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Detecting users handedness for ergonomic adaptation of mobile user interfaces. / Löchtefeld, Markus; Schardt, Phillip; Krüger, Antonio; Boring, Sebastian.
MUM '15 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia. Association for Computing Machinery, 2015. p. 245-249.Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Article in proceedings › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Detecting users handedness for ergonomic adaptation of mobile user interfaces
AU - Löchtefeld, Markus
AU - Schardt, Phillip
AU - Krüger, Antonio
AU - Boring, Sebastian
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - Often, we operate mobile devices using only one hand. The hand thereby serves two purposes: holding the device and operating the touch screen with the thumb. The current trend of increasing screen sizes however, makes it close to impossible to reach all parts of the screen (especially the top area) for users with average hand sizes. One solution is to offer adaptive user interfaces for such one-handed interactions. These modes have to be triggered manually and thus induce a critical overhead. They are further designed to bring all content closer, regardless of whether the phone is operated with the left or right hand. In this paper, we present an algorithm that allows determining the users' interacting hand from their unlocking behavior. Our algorithm correctly distinguishes one- and twohanded usage as well as left- and right handed unlocking in 98.51% of all cases. This is achieved through a k-nearest neighbor comparison of the internal sensor readings of the smartphone during the unlocking process.
AB - Often, we operate mobile devices using only one hand. The hand thereby serves two purposes: holding the device and operating the touch screen with the thumb. The current trend of increasing screen sizes however, makes it close to impossible to reach all parts of the screen (especially the top area) for users with average hand sizes. One solution is to offer adaptive user interfaces for such one-handed interactions. These modes have to be triggered manually and thus induce a critical overhead. They are further designed to bring all content closer, regardless of whether the phone is operated with the left or right hand. In this paper, we present an algorithm that allows determining the users' interacting hand from their unlocking behavior. Our algorithm correctly distinguishes one- and twohanded usage as well as left- and right handed unlocking in 98.51% of all cases. This is achieved through a k-nearest neighbor comparison of the internal sensor readings of the smartphone during the unlocking process.
KW - Adaptive interfaces
KW - Ergonomics
KW - Handedness
KW - Sensor fusion
KW - Unlocking
U2 - 10.1145/2836041.2836066
DO - 10.1145/2836041.2836066
M3 - Article in proceedings
AN - SCOPUS:84959280976
SN - 978-1-4503-3605-5
SP - 245
EP - 249
BT - MUM '15 Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 14th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM 2015
Y2 - 30 November 2015 through 2 December 2015
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ID: 159747835