A Context Menu for the Real World: Controlling Physical Appliances Through Head-Worn Infrared Targeting
Yu-Hsiang Chen, Ben Zhang, Claire Tuna, Yang Li, Edward A. Lee, Bjoern Hartmann

Citation
Yu-Hsiang Chen, Ben Zhang, Claire Tuna, Yang Li, Edward A. Lee, Bjoern Hartmann. "A Context Menu for the Real World: Controlling Physical Appliances Through Head-Worn Infrared Targeting". Talk or presentation, 5, November, 2013; Poster presented at the 2013 TerraSwarm Annual Meeting.

Abstract
We introduce a novel method for selecting and controlling smart appliances in physical spaces through a head-worn computing device with near-eye display and wireless communication. We augment a commercial wearable computing device, Google Glass, with a narrow-beam IR emitter for this purpose. This configuration yields a usable beam width of 2 to 4 feet (60 to 120cm) for targeting at room scale. We describe a disambiguation technique if infrared targeting hits multiple targets simultaneously. A target acquisition study with 14 participants shows that selection using head orientation with our device outperforms list selection on a wearable device. We also report qualitative data from using our device to control multiple appliances in a smart home scenario.

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  Yu-Hsiang Chen, Ben Zhang, Claire Tuna, Yang Li, Edward A.
  Lee, Bjoern Hartmann. <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/pubs/197.html"><i>A
  Context Menu for the Real World: Controlling Physical
  Appliances Through Head-Worn Infrared
  Targeting</i></a>, Talk or presentation,  5,
  November, 2013; Poster presented at the <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/conferences/13/annual"
  >2013 TerraSwarm Annual Meeting</a>.

• Plain text

  Yu-Hsiang Chen, Ben Zhang, Claire Tuna, Yang Li, Edward A.
  Lee, Bjoern Hartmann. "A Context Menu for the Real
  World: Controlling Physical Appliances Through Head-Worn
  Infrared Targeting". Talk or presentation,  5,
  November, 2013; Poster presented at the <a
  href="http://www.terraswarm.org/conferences/13/annual"
  >2013 TerraSwarm Annual Meeting</a>.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{ChenZhangTunaLiLeeHartmann13_ContextMenuForRealWorldControllingPhysicalAppliances,
      author = {Yu-Hsiang Chen and Ben Zhang and Claire Tuna and
                Yang Li and Edward A. Lee and Bjoern Hartmann},
      title = {A Context Menu for the Real World: Controlling
                Physical Appliances Through Head-Worn Infrared
                Targeting},
      day = {5},
      month = {November},
      year = {2013},
      note = {Poster presented at the <a
                href="http://www.terraswarm.org/conferences/13/annual"
                >2013 TerraSwarm Annual Meeting</a>.},
      abstract = {We introduce a novel method for selecting and
                controlling smart appliances in physical spaces
                through a head-worn computing device with near-eye
                display and wireless communication. We augment a
                commercial wearable computing device, Google
                Glass, with a narrow-beam IR emitter for this
                purpose. This configuration yields a usable beam
                width of 2 to 4 feet (60 to 120cm) for targeting
                at room scale. We describe a disambiguation
                technique if infrared targeting hits multiple
                targets simultaneously. A target acquisition study
                with 14 participants shows that selection using
                head orientation with our device outperforms list
                selection on a wearable device. We also report
                qualitative data from using our device to control
                multiple appliances in a smart home scenario. },
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/197.html}
  }
  

Posted by Ben Zhang on 12 Nov 2013.