Designing Motion Matching for Real-World Applications: Lessons from Realistic Deployments
Conference Proceeding
Verweij, D., Esteves, A., Bakker, S., & Khan, V. (2019)
Designing Motion Matching for Real-World Applications: Lessons from Realistic Deployments. In TEI '19 Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, (645-656). https://doi.org/10.1145/3294109.3295628
Amongst the variety of (multi-modal) interaction techniques that are being developed and explored, the Motion Matching paradigm provides a novel approach to selection and cont...
Wattom: a Consumption and Grid Aware Smart Plug with Mid-air Controls
Conference Proceeding
Quintal, F., Esteves, A., Caires, F., Baptiste, V., & Mendes, P. (2019)
Wattom: a Consumption and Grid Aware Smart Plug with Mid-air Controls. In TEI '19 Proceedings of the Thirteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction, (307-313). https://doi.org/10.1145/3294109.3295642
This paper presents Wattom, a highly interactive ambient eco-feedback smart plug that aims to support a more sustainable use of electricity by being tightly coupled to users' ...
Head-mounted displays as opera glasses: using mixed-reality to deliver an egalitarian user experience during live events
Conference Proceeding
Bishop, C., Esteves, A., & McGregor, I. (2017)
Head-mounted displays as opera glasses: using mixed-reality to deliver an egalitarian user experience during live events. In ICMI 2017 Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interactionhttps://doi.org/10.1145/3136755.3136781
This paper explores the use of head-mounted displays (HMDs) as a way to deliver a front row experience to any audience member during a live event. To do so, it presents a two-...
Beats: Tapping Gestures for Smart Watches
Conference Proceeding
Oakley, I., Lee, D., Islam, M. R., & Esteves, A. (2015)
Beats: Tapping Gestures for Smart Watches. In Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1237-1246). https://doi.org/10.1145/2702123.2702226
Interacting with smartwatches poses new challenges. Although capable of displaying complex content, their extremely small screens poorly match many of the touchscreen interact...
Orbits: gaze Interaction for smart watches using smooth pursuit eye movements.
Conference Proceeding
Esteves, A., Velloso, E., Bulling, A., & Gellersen, H. (2015)
Orbits: gaze Interaction for smart watches using smooth pursuit eye movements. In Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software & Technology (457-466). https://doi.org/10.1145/2807442.2807499
We introduce Orbits, a novel gaze interaction technique that enables hands-free input on smart watches. The technique relies on moving controls to leverage the smooth pursuit ...
The ATB Framework: quantifying and classifying epistemic strategies in tangible problem-solving tasks.
Conference Proceeding
Esteves, A., Bakker, S., Antle, A., May, A., Warren, J. & Oakley, I. (2015)
The ATB Framework: quantifying and classifying epistemic strategies in tangible problem-solving tasks. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction, 13-20. doi:10.1145/2677199.2680546. ISBN 978-1-4503-3305-4
In task performance, pragmatic actions refer to behaviors that make direct progress, while epistemic actions involve altering the world so that cognitive processes are faster,...