4 papers
WatchHand: Enabling Continuous Hand Pose Tracking On Off-the-Shelf Smartwatches
Jiwan Kim, Chi-Jung Lee, Hohurn Jung +4
Tracking hand poses on wrist-wearables enables rich, expressive interactions, yet remains unavailable on commercial smartwatches, as prior implementations rely on external sensors…
Cross, Dwell, or Pinch: Designing and Evaluating Around-Device Selection Methods for Unmodified Smartwatches
Jiwan Kim, Jiwan Son, Ian Oakley
Smartwatches offer powerful features, but their small touchscreens limit the expressiveness of the input that can be achieved. To address this issue, we present, and open-source, t…
EchoForce: Continuous Grip Force Estimation from Skin Deformation Using Active Acoustic Sensing on a Wristband
Kian Mahmoodi, Yudong Xie, Tan Gemicioglu +3
Grip force is commonly used as an overall health indicator in older adults and is valuable for tracking progress in physical training and rehabilitation. Existing methods for weara…
BudsID: Mobile-Ready and Expressive Finger Identification Input for Earbuds
Jiwan Kim, Mingyu Han, Ian Oakley
Wireless earbuds are an appealing platform for wearable computing on-the-go. However, their small size and out-of-view location mean they support limited different inputs. We propo…