Interacting with Connected Devices through a Drawable User Interface
Late-Breaking Works: Novel Interactions
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Exposito, Marc
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Miralles, David
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.2462-2466
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: The massive increase in connected devices and the opportunities they present
makes it essential to give users a tool to manage the complexity of such
systems. This new landscape creates the need to memorize multiple relations and
connections, between different objects and their functionalities. Thus, a big
mental load is required for the user in order to interact with these devices.
In this paper, we present a novel approach using a drawable user interface. We
explain the capabilities of drawing to interact with connected devices and how
they empower users to define the functions of their system based on their
personal, local and often task-specific needs. We also explore different
applications for this type of interaction as well as its implementation.
Finally, we discuss how to use our concept in order to design a drawable
programming language.