HOBS: Head Orientation-Based Selection in Physical Spaces
Ben Zhang, Chen Yu-Hsiang, Tuna Claire, Dave Achal, Li Yang, Lee Edward, Hartmann Bjoern

Citation
Ben Zhang, Chen Yu-Hsiang, Tuna Claire, Dave Achal, Li Yang, Lee Edward, Hartmann Bjoern. "HOBS: Head Orientation-Based Selection in Physical Spaces". Talk or presentation, 29, October, 2014.

Abstract
Emerging head-worn computing devices can enable interactions with smart objects in physical spaces. We present the iterative design and evaluation of HOBS -- a Head Orientation-Based Selection technique for interacting with these devices at a distance. We augment a commercial wearable device, Google Glass, with an infrared (IR) emitter to select targets equipped with IR receivers. Our first design shows that a naive IR implementation can outperform list selection, but has poor performance when refinement between multiple tar- gets is needed. A second design uses IR intensity measurement at targets to improve refinement. To address the lack of natural mapping of on-screen target lists to spatial target location, our third design infers a spatial data structure of the targets enabling a natural head-motion based disambiguation. Finally, we demonstrate a universal remote control application using HOBS and report qualitative user impressions.

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  Ben Zhang, Chen Yu-Hsiang, Tuna Claire, Dave Achal, Li Yang,
  Lee Edward, Hartmann Bjoern. <a
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  29, October, 2014.

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  Ben Zhang, Chen Yu-Hsiang, Tuna Claire, Dave Achal, Li Yang,
  Lee Edward, Hartmann Bjoern. "HOBS: Head
  Orientation-Based Selection in Physical Spaces". Talk
  or presentation,  29, October, 2014.

• BibTeX

  @presentation{ZhangYuHsiangClaireAchalYangEdwardBjoern14_HOBSHeadOrientationBasedSelectionInPhysicalSpaces,
      author = {Ben Zhang and Chen Yu-Hsiang and Tuna Claire and
                Dave Achal and Li Yang and Lee Edward and Hartmann
                Bjoern},
      title = {HOBS: Head Orientation-Based Selection in Physical
                Spaces},
      day = {29},
      month = {October},
      year = {2014},
      abstract = {Emerging head-worn computing devices can enable
                interactions with smart objects in physical
                spaces. We present the iterative design and
                evaluation of HOBS -- a Head Orientation-Based
                Selection technique for interacting with these
                devices at a distance. We augment a commercial
                wearable device, Google Glass, with an infrared
                (IR) emitter to select targets equipped with IR
                receivers. Our first design shows that a naive IR
                implementation can outperform list selection, but
                has poor performance when refinement between
                multiple tar- gets is needed. A second design uses
                IR intensity measurement at targets to improve
                refinement. To address the lack of natural mapping
                of on-screen target lists to spatial target
                location, our third design infers a spatial data
                structure of the targets enabling a natural
                head-motion based disambiguation. Finally, we
                demonstrate a universal remote control application
                using HOBS and report qualitative user impressions.},
      URL = {http://terraswarm.org/pubs/460.html}
  }
  

Posted by Ben Zhang on 11 Nov 2014.