TV channels in your pocket! Linking smart pockets to smart TVs

  • Irina Popovici
  • , Wenjun Wu
  • , Radu Daniel Vatavu

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Abstract

We present a gesture-based user interface for smart TVs that employs deictic gestures to control the content displayed on the TV screen. Our interface implements an instance of the “Smart-Pockets” interaction technique, where links to digital content, in our case to users' preferred television channels and shows, are stored inside users' pockets and readily accessible with a mere pointing of the hand to those pockets. Pointing gestures to the pockets and towards the TV screen are detected using the Inertial Measurement Unit embedded in Myo, a smart armband. We discuss the ways in which our prototype opens new opportunities for hybrid, gesture- and pointing-based interactions for smart TVs as well as opportunities for designing interactions that take place at the periphery of user attention.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTVX 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages193-198
Number of pages6
ISBN (Electronic)9781450360173
DOIs
StatePublished - 4 Jun 2019
Event6th ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video, TVX 2019 - Salford, Manchester, United Kingdom
Duration: 5 Jun 20197 Jun 2019

Publication series

NameTVX 2019 - Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video

Conference

Conference6th ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video, TVX 2019
Country/TerritoryUnited Kingdom
CitySalford, Manchester
Period5/06/197/06/19

Keywords

  • Deictic gestures
  • Gesture input
  • Interactive TV
  • Myo armband
  • Peripheral interaction
  • Pointing
  • Smart TVs
  • Smart-Pockets
  • Wearables

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