Publications

@conference{Alqahtani2018,

title = {It’s the Gesture That (re)Counts: Annotating While Running to Recall Affective Experience},

author = {Felwah Alqahtani and Derek Reilly},

doi = {10.20380/GI2018.12},

year  = {2018},

date = {2018-05-08},

booktitle = {Proceedings of Graphics Interface (GI 2018)},

address = {Toronto, Canada},

abstract = {We present results from a study exploring whether gestural annotations of felt emotion presented on a map-based visualization can support recall of affective experience during recreational runs. We compare gestural annotations with audio and video notes and a “mental note” baseline. In our study, 20 runners were asked to record their emotional state at regular intervals while running a familiar route. Each runner used one of the four methods to capture emotion over four separate runs. Five days after the last run, runners used an interactive map-based visualization to review and recall their running experiences. Results indicate that gestural annotation promoted recall of affective experience more effectively than the baseline condition, as measured by confidence in recall and detail provided. Gestural annotation was also comparable to video and audio annotation in terms of recollection confidence and detail. Audio annotation supported recall primarily through the runner's spoken annotation, but sound in the background was sometimes used. Video annotation yielded the most detail, much directly related to visual cues in the video, however using video annotations required runners to stop during their runs. Given these results we propose that background logging of ambient sounds and video may supplement gestural annotation.},

keywords = {embodied interaction, emotional recall, gesture, mobile, running, spatial annotation, visualization},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}

@conference{Malloch2017_CHI,

title = {Fieldward and Pathward: Dynamic Guides for Defining your own Gestures},

author = {Joseph Malloch and Carla Griggio and Joanna McGrenere and Wendy E. Mackay},

doi = {10.1145/3025453.3025764},

year  = {2017},

date = {2017-05-06},

booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2017)},

address = {Denver, USA},

organization = {ACM},

abstract = {Although users accomplish ever more tasks on touch-enabled mobile devices, gesture-based interaction remains limited and almost never customizable by users. Our goal is to help users create gestures that are both personally memorable and reliably recognized by a touch-enabled mobile device. We address these competing requirements with two dynamic guides that use progressive feedforward to interactively visualize the "negative space" of unused gestures: the Pathward technique suggests four possible completions to the current gesture, and the Fieldward technique uses color gradients to reveal optimal directions for creating recognizable gestures. We ran a two-part experiment in which 27 participants each created 42 personal gesture shortcuts on a smartphone, using Pathward, Fieldward or No Feedforward. The Fieldward technique best supported the most common user strategy, i.e. to create a memorable gesture first and then adapt it to be recognized by the system. Users preferred the Fieldward technique to Pathward or No Feedforward, and remembered gestures more easily when using the technique. Dynamic guides can help developers design novel gesture vocabularies and support users as they design custom gestures for mobile applications.},

keywords = {dynamic guides, feedforward, gesture, mobile, progressive feedforward},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {conference}

}