Improving Learnability and Discoverability of Cross-device Interactions

People nowadays tend to own more than one personal devices. All these devices though seem to be created with single-user purposes in mind. The simplest of the tasks such as sharing content across devices seems to complicated. The most common ways of doing so is through the use of Internet, which is not always available, or Bluetooth, that adds additional steps into the interaction.

For my summer project, I developed a mediating device in the form of a belt that is able to sense nearby devices in the space. The user is able to pair their devices to the belt and ,through natural gestures, they are able to transfer content from their device to their interactive target.
I worked on both software and hardware of the device in order to create an early version of a prototype. A small study was conducted in order to evaluate the overall system. The study was structured as a semi-structured interview and gave some valuable insights on the system and the form factor of the belt as wearable technology.

This presentation was given as a part of the final project for the MSc in Human-Computer Interaction degree in the University of Birmingham.

Transcript

1. Improving Learnability and Discoverability of Cross-Device Interactions Alexandros Stylianidis MSc Human-Computer Interaction
2. The problems of cross- device interactions
3. Off-the-shelf techniques Apple Continuity Android Beam Menus
4. Problems found in Literature People don't bump devices together and don't like sharing their personal device [1] People want their devices to work together [2] [1] A. Kirmani and R. Fleck, “‘People don’t bump’: sharing around mobile phones in close proximity,” 2014 [2] T. Jokela, J. Ojala, and T. Olsson, “A Diary Study on Combining Multiple Information Devices in Everyday Activities and Tasks,” 2015
5. Wearable Technology Belt
10. Components
12. Possible Applications
13. Sharing
14. People you met
15. Bus Arrivals
16. Museum Labels
17. Airport Boards
18. Video Prototyping
19. Limitations
20. Next Steps
21. Future Work
22. Demo