A chair as ubiquitous input device: exploring semaphoric chair gestures for focused and peripheral interaction

Kathrin Probst, David Lindlbauer, Michael Haller, Bernhard Schwartz, Andreas Schrempf.

Published at CHI 2014

Abstract

During everyday office work we are used to controlling our computers with keyboard and mouse, while the majority of our body remains unchallenged and the physical workspace around us stays largely unattended. Addressing this untapped potential, we explore the concept of turning a flexible office chair into a ubiquitous input device. To facilitate daily desktop work, we propose the utilization of semaphoric chair gestures that can be assigned to specific application functionalities. The exploration of two usage scenarios in the context of focused and peripheral interaction demonstrates high potential of chair gestures as additional input modality for opportunistic, hands-free interaction.

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Bibtex

@inproceedings{10.1145/2556288.2557051,
 author = {Probst, Kathrin and Lindlbauer, David and Haller, Michael and Schwartz, Bernhard and Schrempf, Andreas},
 title = {A Chair as Ubiquitous Input Device: Exploring Semaphoric Chair Gestures for Focused and Peripheral Interaction},
 year = {2014},
 isbn = {9781450324731},
 publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
 address = {New York, NY, USA},
 url = {https://doi.org/10.1145/2556288.2557051},
 doi = {10.1145/2556288.2557051},
 booktitle = {Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems},
 pages = {4097–4106},
 numpages = {10},
 keywords = {gestural interaction, interactive chair, input technologies},
 location = {Toronto, Ontario, Canada},
 series = {CHI '14}
 }