Yu-Hsiang Chen and Ben Zhang and Claire Tuna and Yang Li and Edward A. Lee and Björn Hartmann

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/EECS-2013-200

December 10, 2013

http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2013/EECS-2013-200.pdf

We introduce a novel method for selecting and controlling smart appliances in physical spaces through a head-worn computing device with near-eye display and wireless communication. We augment a commercial wearable computing device, Google Glass, with a narrow-beam IR emitter for this purpose. This configuration yields a usable beam width of 2 to 4 feet (60 to 120cm) for targeting at room scale. We describe a disambiguation technique if infrared targeting hits multiple targets simultaneously. A target acquisition study with 14 participants shows that selection using head orientation with our device outperforms list selection on a wearable device. We also report qualitative data from using our device to control multiple appliances in a smart home scenario.

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BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Chen:EECS-2013-200,
    Author= {Chen, Yu-Hsiang and Zhang, Ben and Tuna, Claire and Li, Yang and Lee, Edward A. and Hartmann, Björn},
    Title= {A Context Menu for the Real World: Controlling Physical Appliances Through Head-Worn Infrared Targeting},
    Year= {2013},
    Month= {Dec},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2013/EECS-2013-200.html},
    Number= {UCB/EECS-2013-200},
    Abstract= {We introduce a novel method for selecting and controlling smart appliances in physical spaces through a head-worn computing device with near-eye display and wireless communication. We augment a commercial wearable computing device, Google Glass, with a narrow-beam IR emitter for this purpose. This configuration yields a usable beam width of 2 to 4 feet (60 to 120cm) for targeting at room scale. We describe a disambiguation technique if infrared targeting hits multiple targets simultaneously. A target acquisition study with 14 participants shows that selection using head orientation with our device outperforms list selection on a wearable device. We also report qualitative data from using our device to control multiple appliances in a smart home scenario.},
}

EndNote citation:

%0 Report
%A Chen, Yu-Hsiang 
%A Zhang, Ben 
%A Tuna, Claire 
%A Li, Yang 
%A Lee, Edward A. 
%A Hartmann, Björn 
%T A Context Menu for the Real World: Controlling Physical Appliances Through Head-Worn Infrared Targeting
%I EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley
%D 2013
%8 December 10
%@ UCB/EECS-2013-200
%U http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/2013/EECS-2013-200.html
%F Chen:EECS-2013-200