Abstract
This paper describes a user study with an aim to explore
intuitiveness of gestures-based interaction in an
augmented reality (AR) application. We selected children
of age 10-11 as the target group in order to address the
research problem in a setting where users have as little
as possible experience on prior related technologies or
ways of interaction. Altogether 22 children were using a
hand-held web camera-based AR interface, and tried to
identify ways of controlling the AR view through moving
and performing gestures with the web cam. The results
indicated interesting contradictions. Although the
overall evaluations of the application seemed positive,
the observations showed that the children could not
identify the gestural input affordances when they had to
focus on maintaining the marker-based AR-view with the
same hand and modality as with they were expected to
create gestural input. In addition to the findings
related to the intuitiveness, we contemplate the research
setting of having children as participants of user
testing
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Proceedings of the 16th International Academic MindTrek Conference, MindTrek 2012 |
| Place of Publication | New York, NY, USA |
| Publisher | Association for Computing Machinery ACM |
| Pages | 169-174 |
| ISBN (Print) | 978-145031637-8 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 2012 |
| MoE publication type | Not Eligible |
| Event | 16th International Academic MindTrek Conference 2012: "Envisioning Future Media Environments", MindTrek 2012 - Tampere, Finland Duration: 3 Oct 2012 → 5 Oct 2012 |
Conference
| Conference | 16th International Academic MindTrek Conference 2012: "Envisioning Future Media Environments", MindTrek 2012 |
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| Abbreviated title | MindTrek 2012 |
| Country/Territory | Finland |
| City | Tampere |
| Period | 3/10/12 → 5/10/12 |
Keywords
- Augmented reality
- gesture-based interaction
- interaction techniques
- research with children
- user research