microinteractions beside ongoing manual tasks
This paper explores how microinteractions as finger gestures allow executing a secondary task without interrupting the manual primary tasks such as driving a car or using a smart stylus. An analyses of Bock's Grip Taxonomy helps to identify manual primary tasks that have a huge benefit of not being interrupted by secondary tasks to control mobile applications and devices. This vision could offer the possibility to use the mobile phone safely while holding a steering wheel of the car as well as augment the functionality of a smart stylus such as change the stroke width without stopping to write or to draw. After discussing some in this research field used tracking technologies, such as EMG or depth camera, we explore the benefits and device hardware of our prototype, which uses accelerometers to track finger gestures without disable any hand-skills, like its flexibility or tactile sense.
microinteractions gestures mobile spatial wearable