Exploring non-touchscreen gestures for smartwatches

SS Arefin Shimon, C Lutton, Z Xu… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Although smartwatches are gaining popularity among mainstream consumers, the input
space is limited due to their small form factor. The goal of this work is to explore how to …

Exploring accessible smartwatch interactions for people with upper body motor impairments

M Malu, P Chundury, L Findlater - … of the 2018 CHI Conference on …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Smartwatches are always-available, provide quick access to information in a mobile setting,
and can collect continuous health and fitness data. However, the small interaction space of …

WatchMI: pressure touch, twist and pan gesture input on unmodified smartwatches

HS Yeo, J Lee, A Bianchi, A Quigley - Proceedings of the 18th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
The screen size of a smartwatch provides limited space to enable expressive multi-touch
input, resulting in a markedly difficult and limited experience. We present WatchMI: Watch …

Lightful user interaction on smart wearables

H Yoon, SH Park, KT Lee - Personal and ubiquitous computing, 2016 - Springer
Smart wearables are body-worn small devices that require novel user interaction due to its
compactness and wearability. Current UI/UX of smart wearables is rooted in a smartphone …

Watch+ strap: Extending smartwatches with interactive strapdisplays

K Klamka, T Horak, R Dachselt - … of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
While smartwatches are widely adopted these days, their input and output space remains
fairly limited by their screen size. We present StrapDisplays-interactive watchbands with …

PressTact: Side pressure-based input for smartwatch interaction

R Darbar, PK Sen, D Samanta - … of the 2016 CHI Conference Extended …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
Smartwatches have gained a lot of public interest as one of the most popular wearable
devices in recent times, but their diminutive touch screens mar the user experiences. The …

Understanding same-side interactions with wrist-worn devices

F Kerber, M Löchtefeld, A Krüger, J McIntosh… - Proceedings of the 9th …, 2016 - dl.acm.org
We investigate one-handed, same-side gestural interactions with wrist-worn devices. We
contribute results of an elicitation study with 26 participants from various backgrounds to …

A non-touchscreen tactile wearable interface as an alternative to touchscreen-based wearable devices

H Yoon, SH Park - Sensors, 2020 - mdpi.com
Current consumer wearable devices such as smartwatches mostly rely on touchscreen-
based user interfaces. Even though touch-based user interfaces help smartphone users …

Detachable smartwatch: More than a wearable

R Khurana, M Goel, K Lyons - Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
Glanceability and low access time are arguably the key assets of a smartwatch. However,
smartwatches are currently limited to micro-interactions. They do not enable complex …

Investigating a Force-Based Selection Method for Smartwatches in a 1D Fitts' Law Study and Two New Character-Level Keyboards

Y Ren, AS Arif - … of the Seventeenth International Conference on …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Selecting small targets is difficult on tiny displays due to the “fat-finger problem”. In this
paper, we explore the possibility of using a force-based approach to target selection on …