tPad: Designing Transparent-Display Mobile Interactions

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Abstract

As a novel class of mobile devices with rich interaction capabilities we introduce tPads -- transparent display tablets. tPads are the result of a systematic design investigation into the ways and benefits of interacting with transparent mobiles which goes beyond traditional mobile interactions and augmented reality (AR) applications. Through a user-centered design process we explored interaction techniques for transparent-display mobiles and classified them into four categories: overlay, dual display & input, surface capture and model-based interactions. We investigated the technical feasibility of such interactions by designing and building two touch-enabled semi-transparent tablets called tPads and a range of tPad applications. Further, a user study shows that tPad interactions applied to everyday mobile tasks (application switching and image capture) outperform current mobile interactions and were preferred by users. Our hands-on design process and experimental evaluation demonstrate that transparent displays provide valuable interaction opportunities for mobile devices.

Details

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2014 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems
Place of PublicationNew York, NY, USA
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (ACM), New York
Pages161–170
ISBN (print)9781450329026
Publication statusPublished - 2014
Peer-reviewedYes

External IDs

Scopus 84904469966
ORCID /0000-0002-3548-723X/work/142245475
ORCID /0000-0002-2176-876X/work/151435360

Keywords

Keywords

  • tap'n flip, transparent displays, surface capture, tpad, contact ar, transparent mobile devices, flipping