Project summary

	Project no: 740/2014
	Principal Investigators: Radu-Daniel Vatavu (University of Suceava, Romania) and Hannes Kaufmann (Technical University of Vienna, Austria)
	Funded by UEFISCDI, Romania and OeAD, Austria
	Running period: January 2014 - December 2015 (24 months) This project ended in December 2015.

Abstract
In this project, we address the problem of gesture interaction with smart ambient systems to acquire new scientific knowledge for the design and development of feedback techniques for gesture interfaces. Although gesture input is now common for mobile devices and video games in the form of touch, accelerated motion, and whole-body movements, interacting with gestures in new, smart environments is still problematic.



Concrete objectives

1. Design of feedback techniques for gesture interfaces.
2. Development of a wearable prototype for vibrotactile feedback.
3. Evaluation of feedback techniques for gesture interfaces by conducting scientific experiments

Team
The team includes experienced researchers and PhD students in Human-Computer Interaction, Virtual and Augmented Reality.

University of Suceava, Romania	Technical University of Vienna, Austria
Radu-Daniel Vatavu (Principal Investigator) Ionuț-Alexandru Zaiți Bogdan-Florin Gheran Ovidiu-Andrei Schipor	Hannes Kaufmann (Principal Investigator) Annette Mossel Christian Schönauer

Research activities are conducted in the Machine Intelligence and Information Visualization Research Laboratory of the MANSiD Research Center (Romania) and the Interactive Media Systems of Technical University Vienna (Austria).

Publications

Ionuț-Alexandru Zaiți, Stefan-Gheorghe Pentiuc, Radu-Daniel Vatavu. (2015). On Free-Hand TV Control: Experimental Results on User-Elicited Gestures with Leap Motion. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing 19(5-6). London: Springer, 821-838 IF: 1.498 | 5-Year IF: 1.708 (JCR 2015) PDF | DOI

Christian Schönauer, Annette Mossel, Ionuț-Alexandru Zaiți, Radu-Daniel Vatavu. (2015). Touch, Movement & Vibration: User Perception of Vibrotactile Feedback for Touch and Mid-Air Gestures. In Proceedings of INTERACT'15, the 15th IFIP TC.13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, 165-172 PDF | DOI

Radu-Daniel Vatavu. (2015). Audience Silhouettes: Peripheral Awareness of Synchronous Audience Kinesics for Social Television. In Proceedings of TVX'15, the 2nd ACM International Conference on Interactive Experiences for TV and Online Video. New York: ACM Press, 13-22 PDF | DOI | YOUTUBE BEST PAPER AWARD

Radu-Daniel Vatavu, Ionuț-Alexandru Zaiți. (2014). . Leap Gestures for TV: Insights from an Elicitation Study. In Proceedings of the 2014 ACM international conference on Interactive experiences for TV and online video (TVX '14). New York: ACM Press, 131-138 PDF | DOI

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