An Interactive Design Space for Wearable Displays

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A4 Artikkeli konferenssijulkaisussa
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2021-09-27
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en
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14
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Proceedings of MobileHCI 2021 - ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction
Abstract
The promise of on-body interactions has led to widespread development of wearable displays. They manifest themselves in highly variable shapes and form, and are realized using technologies with fundamentally different properties. Through an extensive survey of the field of wearable displays, we characterize existing systems based on key qualities of displays and wearables, such as location on the body, intended viewers or audience, and the information density of rendered content. We present the results of this analysis in an open, web-based interactive design space that supports exploration and refinement along various parameters. The design space, which currently encapsulates 129 cases of wearable displays, aims to inform researchers and practitioners on existing solutions and designs, and enable the identification of gaps and opportunities for novel research and applications. Further, it seeks to provide them with a thinking tool to deliberate on how the displayed content should be adapted based on key design parameters. Through this work, we aim to facilitate progress in wearable displays, informed by existing solutions, by providing researchers with an interactive platform for discovery and reflection.
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Funding Information: This work was partly funded by the Department of Communications and Networking (Comnet, Aalto University), and Academy of Finland projects ‘Human Automata’ and ‘BAD’. This research was partially funded by Flanders Make, the strategic research centre for the manufacturing industry, through its projects ‘SmartHandler’ and ‘Ergo-EyeHand’. Publisher Copyright: © 2021 ACM.
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Design Space, Displays, Survey, Wearable Computing
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Heller, F, Todi, K & Luyten, K 2021, An Interactive Design Space for Wearable Displays . in Proceedings of MobileHCI 2021 - ACM International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction : Mobile Apart, MobileTogether ., 4, ACM, International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services, Virtual, Online, France, 27/09/2021 . https://doi.org/10.1145/3447526.3472034