Exploring Non-touchscreen Gestures for Smartwatches
summary
Elicitation with 25 participants across 31 smartwatch tasks collects 775 gestures and yields a clear consensus gesture set that maps many commands to simple short motions (swipe above device for next, rim pinch for time adjust, band vertical swipe for scrolling). A two‑axis taxonomy (gesture mapping and physical characteristics) identifies size, duration, location and social acceptability constraints and recommends combining radar (Project Soli) and muscle or IR sensing for reliable recognition.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction to research
- 3:02Elicitation study approach
- 6:39Consensus gesture findings
- 8:52Gesture taxonomy explained
- 11:26User preferences and biases
- 13:57Social acceptability of gestures
- 14:59Study limitations and future work
- 15:42Q&A session
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