GestuRING: A web-based tool for designing gesture input with rings, ring-like, and ring-ready devices

RD Vatavu, LB Bilius - The 34th Annual ACM Symposium on User …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Despite an exciting area with many promises for innovations in wearable interactive
systems, research on interaction techniques for smart rings lacks structured knowledge and …

Iteratively designing gesture vocabularies: A survey and analysis of best practices in the HCI literature

H **a, M Glueck, M Annett, M Wang… - ACM Transactions on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
Gestural interaction has evolved from a set of novel interaction techniques developed in
research labs, to a dominant interaction modality used by millions of users everyday …

iFAD gestures: understanding users' gesture input performance with index-finger augmentation devices

RD Vatavu - Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
We examine gestures performed with a class of input devices with distinctive quality
properties in the wearables landscape, which we call “index-Finger Augmentation …

Chartdetective: Easy and accurate interactive data extraction from complex vector charts

D Masson, S Malacria, D Vogel, E Lank… - Proceedings of the 2023 …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Extracting underlying data from rasterized charts is tedious and inaccurate; values might be
partially occluded or hard to distinguish, and the quality of the image limits the precision of …

Take a Seat, Make a gesture: charting user preferences for on-chair and from-chair gesture input

AT Andrei, LB Bilius, RD Vatavu - … of the 2024 CHI Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
We explore the chair as a referential frame for facilitating hand gesture input to control
interactive systems. First, we conduct a Systematic Literature Review on the topic of …

Understanding gesture input articulation with upper-body wearables for users with upper-body motor impairments

RD Vatavu, OC Ungurean - Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on …, 2022 - dl.acm.org
We examine touchscreen stroke-gestures and mid-air motion-gestures articulated by users
with upper-body motor impairments with devices worn on the wrist, finger, and head. We …

A multistudy investigation of drivers and passengers' gesture and voice input preferences for in-vehicle interactions

LB Bilius, RD Vatavu - Journal of Intelligent Transportation …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
We conduct an examination of the preferences of drivers and passengers alike for in-vehicle
interactions with a multistudy approach consisting of (1) a targeted literature survey of …

The dissimilarity-consensus approach to agreement analysis in gesture elicitation studies

RD Vatavu - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We introduce the dissimilarity-consensus method, a new approach to computing objective
measures of consensus between users' gesture preferences to support data analysis in end …

Stroke-gesture input for people with motor impairments: empirical results & research roadmap

RD Vatavu, OC Ungurean - Proceedings of the 2019 CHI Conference on …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
We examine the articulation characteristics of stroke-gestures produced by people with
upper body motor impairments on touchscreens as well as the accuracy rates of popular …

Gesture-based interaction

RD Vatavu - Handbook of Human Computer Interaction, 2023 - Springer
Many interactive devices and systems, from smartphones and tablets to smart wearables,
video game consoles, ambient displays and interactive surfaces to systems rendering virtual …