Intuitive interaction with multiple displays using orientation-sensor- enabled smartphones

Hao Fu, James She

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Abstract

Digital displays have been extensively used at various indoor and outdoor venues to provide updated information to the audiences. With the pervasiveness of the smartphones nowadays, it is possible to utilize smartphones to design new interactive display systems. Although many such systems have been proposed, none of them address the issue of supporting interaction with multiple displays. A new solution is proposed in this paper to allow users to use smartphone sensors to intuitively interact with multiple displays at one venue. This approach is based on azimuth angle measured by the smartphone's orientation sensor, and situation abstraction which eliminates the use of location information. Each display at the venue is optimally assigned with an azimuth angle range. A smartphone constantly measures its azimuth angle. If it is within the azimuth angle ranges of a particular display, the smartphones presumes the user is interested to interact with this display. As a result, a user can interact with the desired display intuitively by pointing his/her smartphone at it, and switch smoothly from one display to another by changing smartphone's orientation.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2013 IEEE 9th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob 2013
Pages360-366
Number of pages7
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
Event2013 IEEE 9th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob 2013 - Lyon, France
Duration: 7 Oct 20139 Oct 2013

Publication series

NameInternational Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications
ISSN (Print)2161-9646
ISSN (Electronic)2161-9654

Conference

Conference2013 IEEE 9th International Conference on Wireless and Mobile Computing, Networking and Communications, WiMob 2013
Country/TerritoryFrance
CityLyon
Period7/10/139/10/13

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