Intimate interfaces in action: Assessing the usability and subtlety of emg-based motionless gestures

Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 819-828

  Costanza, Enrico ^a   Inverso, Samuel A ^b   Allen, Rebecca ^c   Maes, Pattie ^d  

^a EPFL   (Switzerland)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Electromyogram; Intimate interface; Mobile computing; Motionless gestures; Social acceptance; Subtle interaction; Wearable computing

Indexed keywords

GESTURE RECOGNITION; MOBILE COMPUTING; MODAL ANALYSIS; WEARABLE COMPUTERS;

ELECTROMYOGRAM; INTIMATE INTERFACE; MOTIONLESS GESTURES; SOCIAL ACCEPTANCE; SUBTLE INTERACTION; WEARABLE COMPUTING;

INTERFACES (COMPUTER);

EID: 35348885605     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1240624.1240747     Document Type: Conference Paper

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