Mobile devices as multi-DOF controllers

Author

Katzakis, Nicholas ; Hori, Masahiro

Author_Institution

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

fYear

2010

fDate

20-21 March 2010

Firstpage

139

Lastpage

140

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 magnetometer equipped mobile phones as 3-DOF controllers in a 3D rotation task. We put the mobile phone up against the established standards, a mouse and a touch pen and compare their performance. Our preliminary evaluation indicates that for this type of task, with only 5 minutes of practice the mobile device is significantly faster than both the mouse and the touch pen.

Keywords

accelerometers; control engineering computing; keyboards; magnetometers; mobile computing; mobile handsets; mouse controllers (computers); 3D manipulation tasks; accelerometer equipped mobile phones; input devices; magnetometer equipped mobile phones; mobile devices; mouse; multiDOF controllers; touch pen; Accelerometers; Bluetooth; Control systems; Informatics; Keyboards; Magnetic devices; Magnetic sensors; Magnetometers; Mice; Mobile handsets; 3D input; accelerometer; controller; interaction; magnetometer; rotation; touchscreen;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

3D User Interfaces (3DUI), 2010 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Waltham, MA

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-6846-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-6845-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/3DUI.2010.5444700

Filename

5444700