You Can Touch This: Eleven Years and 258218 Images of Objects
alt.chi: See this, hear this, touch this, keep this
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Runge, Nina
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Schöning, Johannes
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Malaka, Rainer
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Frigo, Alberto
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.541-552
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: Touch has become a central input modality for a wide variety of interactive
devices, most of our mobile devices are operated using touch. In addition to
interacting with digital artifacts, people touch and interact with many other
objects in their daily lives. We provide a unique photo dataset containing all
touched objects over the last 11 years. All photos were contributed by Alberto
Frigo, who was involved early on in the "Quantified Self" movement. He takes
photos of every object he touches with his dominant hand. We analyzed the
258,218 images with respect to the types objects, their distribution, and
related activities.
