PicoTales

Robinson, Simon; Jones, Matt; Vartiainen, Elina; Marsden, Gary

doi:10.1145/2145204.2145306

Cited by 25 publications

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“…Similarly, Henze et al [8] support poster-based interaction, presenting a useful technique for object recognition, but focusing on interaction on the phone's screen, rather than using its physical form as a pointer. We see this work as being more closely positioned to, for example, Maunder et al's SnapAndGrab [14], which used photos of media objects on a large display as surrogates for requesting Bluetooth transfer of related media, or that of Robinson et al [15], who used a pico-projected surface for pair-based sketching and storytelling.…”

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confidence: 96%

“…Currently, our design uses smartphone sensors in conjunction with a neodynium magnet positioned below a QR code in the centre of an A4-sized poster. After scanning the QR code (to uniquely identify the poster), our prototype prompts the user to perform a calibration step, by pointing to all four corners of the poster with the corner of their phone (similar to [15]). This calibration information is saved for future interaction with this particular poster.…”

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PosterPointing

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2016

Proceedings of the First African Conference on Human Computer Interaction

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In this paper we explore the potential for creating large pseudodisplays using posters instead of touchscreens. Interactive public displays are common in city centres, but may not be accessible to emergent users. However, the prevalence of increasingly smart, sensor-rich mobile devices offers an alternative. The PosterPointing concept uses physical gestures with mobile devices around printed media in order to explore a rich set of interactions. We created a prototype to investigate the feasibility of one method of enabling this, and suggest other potential approaches. We performed a study to understand how emergent users might gesture using a small device to interact with two larger surface scenarios. Our results show a range of gestures and combinations of phone and paper surface, and offer suggestions for how the design might be used in future.

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PosterPointing

Robinson

Pearson

Jones

2016

Proceedings of the First African Conference on Human Computer Interaction

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“…Various physical and social contexts of use were investigated including teamwork at the office [2], sharing media content at home [3] and outdoors [1], public expression in a theme park [5] and in a pub [3,6], location-based mobile disaster response games [7], and sharing educational stories in rural, developing-world contexts [8].…”

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Mobile collocated interactions with wearables: past, present, and future

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This Special Issue focuses on the emerging use of wearable technologies for mobile collocated interactions. Rather than merely listing off the articles that follow, we wish to introduce this Special Issue by discussing the past, present, and future of this field in HCI through its theories, ongoing designs and research efforts, and emerging frameworks. We conclude by providing an overview of a series of workshops on the topic, and introduce the two main articles that comprise this Special Issue. Mobile collocated interactions: origins of the fieldMobile devices such as smartphones and tablets were originally conceived and have traditionally been utilized for individual use. Over the last decade, research on mobile collocated interactions [1-4] has explored situations in which collocated users engage in collaborative activities using their mobile devices, thus going from personal/individual toward shared/multiuser experiences and interactions.Early research in this field frequently encouraged people to share their devices to create a collective experience or reach a common goal. Various physical and social contexts of use were investigated including teamwork at the office [2], sharing media content at home [3] and outdoors [1], public expression in a theme park [5] and in a pub [3,6], location-based mobile disaster response games [7], and sharing educational stories in rural, developing-world contexts [8].The investigation of mobile collocated interactions began almost a decade ago when work in engineering platforms that allow designers to easily create applications for mobile groups began to emerge around 2007/2008 [2, 9, 10]. Hardware and sensing innovations coupled with the smartphone revolution and researchers' newfound ability to design, build, and deploy mobile applications provided an opportunity for HCI researchers to begin to prototype mobile collaborative group experiences. Additionally, some researchers had earlier focused on how general groupware issues such as ad-hoc group formation and floor control policies are impacted by the switch from standard group-use hardware, such as tabletop displays or interactive whiteboards, to a collection of mobile devices [11,12]. More recently researchers have looked into simple ways to bind devices together in the context of mobile collocated interactions [13,14]. The gaming community also showed interest in understanding and designing for the

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“…As discussed towards the end of this article, we believe the AudioCanvas design shows strong potential for interactive, evolving physical-digital storytelling. Previous work in this area includes systems such as KidPad [Druin et al 1997], which extended existing sketching software to create a storytelling environment, or PicoTales [Robinson et al 2012], which supported group-based collaborative sketching via gestures and pico projectors. Unlike traditional digital storytelling (which has focused around creating short self-narrated digital films), or these previous approaches, AudioCanvas lets physical sketches or other objects and digital elements coexist as part of the narrative.…”

Section: Annotation As Storytellingmentioning

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Exploring Low-Cost, Internet-Free Information Access for Resource-Constrained Communities

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Robinson

Jones

2016

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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Rural developing regions are often defined in terms of their resource constraints, including limited technology exposure, lack of power and low access to data connections (leading to an inability to access information from digital or physical sources), as well as being amongst the most socioeconomically disadvantaged and least literate in their countries' populations. This paper is focused around information access in such regions, aiming to build upon and extend the audio-based services that are already widely used in order to provide access to further types of media. In this article, then, we present an extended exploration of AudioCanvasan interactive telephone-based audio information system which allows cameraphone users to interact directly with their own photos of physical media to receive narration or description. Our novel approach requires no specialist hardware, literacy, or data connectivity, making it far more likely to be a suitable solution for users in such regions.

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PicoTales

Cited by 25 publications

References 31 publications

PosterPointing

PosterPointing

Mobile collocated interactions with wearables: past, present, and future

Exploring Low-Cost, Internet-Free Information Access for Resource-Constrained Communities

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