Tangible Stickers: A Sensor Based Tangible User Interface

Daniel Zatulovsky, Jihad El-Sana

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Abstract

In this paper we present the Tangible Stickers, a tangible interface framework which is based on small devices that include Inertial Measurement Units (IMU) sensors, such as gyroscopes and accelerometers. These Tangible Input Devices (TID) are attached to physical objects turning them into input devices, which transmit the sensed data wirelessly to a paired server. The server maintains the states of its paired devices in a stateful manner and expose these devices with their state to interactive applications connected to the server. These applications interact with the paired devices and augment their attached physical objects creating a tangible user interface. Our framework enables an application developer to easily incorporate a tangible interface into their applications, which communicate with the server to receive the state of these devices, and update the state of their digital counterparts. We have implemented the proposed framework, tested our implementation on various scenarios and conducted a user study, whose results were encouraging.

Original languageAmerican English
Title of host publicationVirtual Reality and Augmented Reality - 16th EuroVR International Conference, EuroVR 2019, Proceedings
EditorsPatrick Bourdot, Victoria Interrante, Luciana Nedel, Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann, Gabriel Zachmann
PublisherSpringer
Pages297-304
Number of pages8
ISBN (Print)9783030319076
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2019
Event16th International Conference on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, EuroVR 2019 - Tallinn, Estonia
Duration: 23 Oct 201925 Oct 2019

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume11883 LNCS

Conference

Conference16th International Conference on Virtual Reality and Augmented Reality, EuroVR 2019
Country/TerritoryEstonia
CityTallinn
Period23/10/1925/10/19

Keywords

  • Augmented Reality
  • Internet of Things
  • Tangible interfaces

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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