Head-mounted displays as opera glasses: using mixed-reality to deliver an egalitarian user experience during live events
Conference Proceeding
Bishop, C., Esteves, A., & McGregor, I. (2017)
Head-mounted displays as opera glasses: using mixed-reality to deliver an egalitarian user experience during live events. In ICMI 2017 Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interactionhttps://doi.org/10.1145/3136755.3136781
This paper explores the use of head-mounted displays (HMDs) as a way to deliver a front row experience to any audience member during a live event. To do so, it presents a two-...
SmoothMoves: smooth pursuits head movements for augmented reality.
Conference Proceeding
Abreu Esteves, A., Verweij, D., Suraiya, L., Islam, R., Lee, Y., & Oakley, I. (2017)
SmoothMoves: smooth pursuits head movements for augmented reality. In UIST '17 Proceedings of the 30th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, (167-178). https://doi.org/10.1145/3126594.3126616
SmoothMoves is an interaction technique for augmented reality (AR) based on smooth pursuits head movements. It works by computing correlations between the movements of on-scre...
jamTable: Can Physical Interfaces Support the Collaboration between Novice and Experienced Musicians?
Conference Proceeding
Esteves, A., Quintal, F., & Oakley, I. (2013)
jamTable: Can Physical Interfaces Support the Collaboration between Novice and Experienced Musicians?. In Haptic and Audio Interaction Design: 8th International Workshop, HAID 2013. , (99-108). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41068-0_11
This paper introduces jamTable, a system that enables the collaboration between users playing a standard musical instrument and users interacting with a tangible musical seque...
Fall of Humans: Interactive tabletop games and transmedia storytelling.
Conference Proceeding
Dionisio, M., Gujaran, A., Pinto, M., & Esteves, A. (2015)
Fall of Humans: Interactive tabletop games and transmedia storytelling. In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Interactive Tabletops & Surfaces, (401-404). https://doi.org/10.1145/2817721.2823477
This paper illustrates how transmedia storytelling can help introduce players to interactive tabletop games. To do so, we developed Fall of Humans (FoH), an experience that ta...
Orbits: enabling gaze interaction in smart watches using moving targets
Conference Proceeding
Esteves, A., Velloso, E., Bulling, A., & Gellersen, H. (2015)
Orbits: enabling gaze interaction in smart watches using moving targets. In UbiComp/ISWC'15 Adjunct Adjunct Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computerhttps://doi.org/10.1145/2800835.2800942
In this paper we demonstrate Orbits, a novel gaze interaction technique that accounts for both the reduced size of smart watch displays and the hands-free nature of convention...
AmbiGaze: Direct Control of Ambient Devices by Gaze
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Velloso, E., Wirth, M., Weichel, C., Esteves, A., & Gellersen, H. (2016)
AmbiGaze: Direct Control of Ambient Devices by Gaze. In DIS '16 Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems, (812-817). https://doi.org/10.1145/2901790.2901867
Eye tracking offers many opportunities for direct device control in smart environments, but issues such as the need for calibration and the Midas touch problem make it impract...
Mementos: a tangible interface supporting travel
Conference Proceeding
Esteves, A., & Oakley, I. (2010)
Mementos: a tangible interface supporting travel. In Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries, 643-646. https://doi.org/10.1145/1868914.1868994
Tangible interaction promises interfaces with ready affordances, which embrace physicality and which naturally support collaboration. However, the complexity of the hardware r...
On and Offline Tangible Interaction: Studying the Secret Lives of Augmented Objects
Conference Proceeding
Oakley, I., & Esteves, A. (2013)
On and Offline Tangible Interaction: Studying the Secret Lives of Augmented Objects. In 2013 International Symposium on Ubiquitous Virtual Reality (ISUVR)https://doi.org/10.1109/isuvr.2013.12
The smart, augmented objects that appear in systems that support tangible interaction have a dual life. While they can exhibit complex digital behaviors in the technological c...
A Look at the Effects of Handheld and Projected Augmented-reality on a Collaborative Task
Conference Proceeding
Mackamul, E. B., & Esteves, A. (2018)
A Look at the Effects of Handheld and Projected Augmented-reality on a Collaborative Task. In SUI '18 Symposium on Spatial User Interactionhttps://doi.org/10.1145/3267782.3267793
This paper presents a comparative study between two popular AR systems during a collocated collaborative task. The goal of the study is to start a body of knowledge that descr...
Designing tangible interaction for embodied facilitation
Conference Proceeding
Esteves, A. (2012)
Designing tangible interaction for embodied facilitation. https://doi.org/10.1145/2148131.2148231
Designing and evaluating tangible interaction is a challenging ad-hoc process. This paper argues that if the field of tangible interaction is to continue to develop, it will n...