Improving the Usability of Gestures via User Manipulation
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2013-08-22
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en
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In this thesis project the trade-off between ease-of-use and high recognition performance for gesture control is studied. In many areas this trade-off is observed and this thesis proposes a new way of solving this conundrum. During a pilot study it was determined that certain gestures are more user-friendly (on subjective factors such as “easy to perform”, “easy to remember” etc.) while others yield a better performance during classification (while at the same time receiving lower usability ratings). To try and increase the usability of the high performance gestures an experiment was set up to test whether it was possible to train the user subconsciously in performing the high performance gestures, while telling the user to perform the high usability gestures. The results of this experiment look promising as a large increase in usability was observed and the users learned to execute the high performance gestures correctly without knowing they changed the way in which the gestures were executed. Nevertheless,
further research is required to determine exactly the effect size and increase the usability even further.
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Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen