User Attention with Head-Worn Displays
Late-Breaking Works: Novel Interactions
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Farve, Niaja
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Achituv, Tal
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Maes, Pattie
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.2467-2473
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: Recently there has been a surge of interest in wearable devices both in
industry and academia. This includes the introduction of head-worn devices into
everyday life. Head-worn devices have the advantage of containing a screen that
is easily seen by the wearer at all times, in contrast with other device
screens, which can be hidden in pockets or simply easily ignored. However,
during certain activities it can be difficult to get the wearer to notice
messages even when presented through head-worn devices. For certain
applications, it may be important that the user does not miss a particular
notification or warning. Not much is known about which methods work best to
attract the users' attention in such situations. We describe results from two
user studies to determine the best method to catch the attention of a user with
a head-worn display.