Mobile Phones as 3-DOF Controllers: A Comparative Study

Author

Katzakis, Nikolaos ; Hori, Masahiro

Author_Institution

Grad. Sch. of Inf., Kansai Univ., Takatsuki, Japan

fYear

2009

fDate

12-14 Dec. 2009

Firstpage

345

Lastpage

349

Abstract

Conventional input devices such as the mouse and keyboard lack in intuitiveness when it comes to 3D manipulation tasks. In this paper, we explore the use of accelerometer and digital compass equipped mobile phones as 3-DOF controllers in a 3D object rotation task. We put the mobile phone up against the established standards, a mouse and a touch pen and compare their performance in a rotation task. Our preliminary evaluation indicates that for this type of task, with only 5 minutes of practice the mobile phone is significantly faster than both the mouse and the touch pen.

Keywords

interactive devices; mobile handsets; solid modelling; 3-DOF controllers; 3D object rotation task; accelerometer; digital compass equipped mobile phone; input device; Accelerometers; Control systems; Earth; Graphics; Hardware; Informatics; Keyboards; Magnetometers; Mice; Mobile handsets; 3-DOF Controller; 3D Rotation; Accelerometer; Bimanual Input; Digital Compass; MEMS; Magnetometer; Mobile Phone; Spatial Input; Virtual Sphere;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Dependable, Autonomic and Secure Computing, 2009. DASC '09. Eighth IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Chengdu

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-3929-4

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-5421-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/DASC.2009.76

Filename

5380602