Gaze+touch vs. touch: what’s the trade-off when using gaze to extend touch to remote displays?

Ken Pfeuffer; Jason Mark Alexander; Hans-Werner Georg Gellersen

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22668-2_27

Gaze+touch vs. touch: what’s the trade-off when using gaze to extend touch to remote displays?

Ken Pfeuffer, Jason Mark Alexander, Hans-Werner Georg Gellersen

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Abstract

Direct touch input is employed on many devices, but it is inherently restricted to displays that are reachable by the user. Gaze input as a mediator can extend touch to remote displays - using gaze for remote selection, and touch for local manipulation - but at what cost and benefit? In this paper, we investigate the potential trade-off with four experiments that empirically compare remote Gaze+touch to standard touch. Our experiments investigate dragging, rotation, and scaling tasks. Results indicate that Gaze+touch is, compared to touch, (1) equally fast and more accurate for rotation and scaling, (2) slower and less accurate for dragging, and (3) enables selection of smaller targets. Our participants confirm this trend, and are positive about the relaxed finger placement of Gaze+touch. Our experiments provide detailed performance characteristics to consider for the design of Gaze+touch interaction of remote displays. We further discuss insights into strengths and drawbacks in contrast to direct touch.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Human-Computer Interaction -- INTERACT 2015
Editors	Julio Abascal, Simone Barbosa, Mirko Fetter, Tom Gross, Philippe Palanque, Marco Winckler
Publisher	Springer International Publishing
Pages	349-367
Number of pages	19
ISBN (Print)	9783319226682
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22668-2_27
Publication status	Published - 30 Aug 2015

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The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-2268-2_27

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Pfeuffer, K., Alexander, J. M., & Gellersen, H.-W. G. (2015). Gaze+touch vs. touch: what’s the trade-off when using gaze to extend touch to remote displays? In J. Abascal, S. Barbosa, M. Fetter, T. Gross, P. Palanque, & M. Winckler (Eds.), Human-Computer Interaction -- INTERACT 2015 (pp. 349-367). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-22668-2_27

Gaze+touch vs. touch: what’s the trade-off when using gaze to extend touch to remote displays? / Pfeuffer, Ken; Alexander, Jason Mark; Gellersen, Hans-Werner Georg.
Human-Computer Interaction -- INTERACT 2015. ed. / Julio Abascal; Simone Barbosa; Mirko Fetter; Tom Gross; Philippe Palanque; Marco Winckler. Springer International Publishing, 2015. p. 349-367.

Research output: Chapter or section in a book/report/conference proceeding › Chapter in a published conference proceeding

Pfeuffer, Ken ; Alexander, Jason Mark ; Gellersen, Hans-Werner Georg. / Gaze+touch vs. touch: what’s the trade-off when using gaze to extend touch to remote displays?. Human-Computer Interaction -- INTERACT 2015. editor / Julio Abascal ; Simone Barbosa ; Mirko Fetter ; Tom Gross ; Philippe Palanque ; Marco Winckler. Springer International Publishing, 2015. pp. 349-367

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