How natural is a natural interface? An evaluation procedure based on action breakdowns

Personal and Ubiquitous Computing

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 69-79

  Gamberini, Luciano ^a   Spagnolli, Anna ^a   Prontu, Lisa ^a   Furlan, Sarah ^a   Martino, Francesco ^a   Solaz, Beatriz Rey ^b   Alcañiz, Mariano ^b   Lozano, Josè Antonio ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE VALÈNCIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Action breakdown; Naturalness; Systematic video analysis; Usability

Indexed keywords

ACTION BREAKDOWN; BREAKDOWN ANALYSIS; LOCOMOTION SYSTEM; MEAN AGES; NATURAL INTERFACES; NATURALNESS; SYSTEMATIC ANALYSIS; THEORETICAL BASIS; USABILITY; USABILITY STUDIES; VIDEO ANALYSIS; VIRTUAL SPACES;

HARDWARE;

COMPUTER APPLICATIONS;

EID: 84872278924     PISSN: 16174909     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00779-011-0476-z     Document Type: Article

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