Flick Gestures Research Articles

Comparison of E-Textile Techniques and Materials for 3D Gesture Sensor with Boosted Electrode Design.

There is an interest in new wearable solutions that can be directly worn on the curved human body or integrated into daily objects. Textiles offer properties that are suitable to be used as holders for electronics or sensors components. Many sensing technologies have been explored considering textiles substrates in combination with conductive materials in the last years. In this work, a novel solution of a gesture recognition touchless sensor is implemented with satisfactory results. Moreover, three manufacturing techniques have been considered as alternatives: screen-printing with conductive ink, embroidery with conductive thread and thermosealing with conductive fabric. The main critical parameters have been analyzed for each prototype including the sensitivity of the sensor, which is an important and specific parameter of this type of sensor. In addition, user validation has been performed, testing several gestures with different subjects. During the tests carried out, flick gestures obtained detection rates from 79% to 89% on average. Finally, in order to evaluate the stability and strength of the solutions, some tests have been performed to assess environmental variations and washability deteriorations. The obtained results are satisfactory regarding temperature and humidity variations. The washability tests revealed that, except for the screen-printing prototype, the sensors can be washed with minimum degradation.

Quality study of user activity using mobile device. Tap, double tap, flick gestures.

The article presents the results of research on the quality of gestures performed by users using a mobile device. As a mobile device, the Nokia Lumia 800 smartphone was used. The results of the research concern the basic gestures of tap, double tap and flick, and include the execution time and the precision of the gesture. The results take into account the division of users into age groups and groups using and not using a smartphone every day. A comparison of the designated characteristics between groups is presented. Research on other gestures will be presented in the next paper.

English Input Keypad Method Using Picker -Based Interface

By according to the development of the mobile devices, a touch screen provides the variety of inputting character and the flexibility of user interface. Currently, the physically simple touch method is widely used for English input but this simple touch is not increasing the variety of inputs and flexibility of the user interfaces. In this paper, we propose a new method to input English characters continuously by recognizing gestures instead of the simple touches. The proposed method places the rotational pickers on the screen for changing the alphabetical sequence instead of the keys and inputs English characters through the flick gestures and the touches. Simulation results show that the proposed keypad method has better performance than the keypad of the conventional methods.

A novel nonintrusive user authentication method based on touch gestures for smartphones

Novel nonintrusive authentication mechanisms for smartphones have recently been investigated to complement existing protection mechanisms. A major reason is that a nonintrusive approach can continually authenticate users without interrupting their operations. In this paper, a novel approach to nonintrusive authentication of smartphone users involving flick gestures is proposed. Sixteen histogram-based features of flick gestures, including five novel features related to the habitual touch positions of a user, were used for authentication. Empirical results based on 51 participants indicated that the proposed approach was feasible. The equal error rate of the proposed approach was approximately 4.37% ~ 5.13% when the histogram-based features were calculated based on 30 flicks and decreased to approximately 2.35% ~ 2.99% for features based on 60 flicks. In addition, the experimental results revealed that the five novel features proposed are effective. Possible applications and limitations of the proposed approach are discussed.

A flick in the right direction: a case study of gestural input

This paper describes the design and evaluation of a gesture-based scheme for issuing the back and forward commands in web browsers. In designing our gesture recogniser we conducted several experiments to determine metrics associated with the magnitude, timing and stereotypical errors of ‘natural’ linear flick gestures using stylus and mouse input devices. These low-level metrics are important to software designers who must implement algorithms that discriminate between gestures and other actions such as mouse clicks and drags. As well as empirically characterising gestures, the metrics provide various insights into stereotypical behaviour with gestures, including the facts that angular errors are larger in the left and right directions with the pen, that vertical gestures are ‘awkward’ with the mouse, and that downwards gestures are slower than other directions. An evaluation of gestures for web browsing shortcuts shows that they enhance navigation efficiency, and that participants were extremely enthusiastic about them.