Designing for Multiple Hand Grips and Body Postures within the UX of a moving Smartphone

2018. Rachel Eardley, Anne Roudaut, Steve Gill & Stephen Thompson
DIS '18: Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference.

Abstract

In this paper we explore how screen-based smartphone interaction can be enriched when designers focus on the physical interaction issues surrounding the device. These consist of the hand grips used (Symmetric bimanual, Asymmetric bimanual with thumb, Single handed, Asymmetric bimanual with finger), body postures (Sitting at a table, Standing, Lying down) and the tilting of the smartphone itself. These physical interactions are well described in the literature and several research papers provide empirical metrics describing them. In this paper, we go one step further by using this data to generate new screen-based interactions. We achieved this by conducting two workshops to investigate how smartphone interaction design can be informed by the physicality of smartphone interaction. By analysing the outcomes, we provide 14 new screen interaction examples with additional insights comparing outcomes for various body postures and grips.

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Citation

Eardley, R., Roudaut, A., Gill, S., & Thompson, S. J. (2018). Designing for multiple hand grips and body postures within the ux of a moving smartphone. Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 611–621).

BibTeX

@inproceedings{eardley2018designing,
  title={Designing for Multiple Hand Grips and Body Postures within the UX of a moving Smartphone},
  author={Eardley, Rachel and Roudaut, Anne and Gill, Steve and Thompson, Stephen J},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the 2018 Designing Interactive Systems Conference},
  pages={611--621},
  year={2018}
}