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Whole Body Interaction with Public Displays

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  • Presents valuable new approaches to digital out-of-home media and digital signage in urban environments
  • Offers solutions for communicating to passers-by that digital signage is interactive
  • Shows how digital signage could better explain its interaction
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: T-Labs Series in Telecommunication Services (TLABS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
  2. Introduction and Motivation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
    2. Introduction

      • Robert Walter
      Pages 3-8
    3. Methodology

      • Robert Walter
      Pages 9-10
  3. Background

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 11-11
    2. State of the Art

      • Robert Walter
      Pages 13-23
    3. Technology

      • Robert Walter
      Pages 25-28
  4. Studies

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 29-29
    2. Visual Attention Analysis

      • Robert Walter
      Pages 53-63
    3. A Field Study on Visualizing Gesture Hints

      • Robert Walter
      Pages 65-83
    4. A Field Study on Mid-Air Item Selection

      • Robert Walter
      Pages 85-105
  5. Conclusion

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 107-107
    2. Conclusion

      • Robert Walter
      Pages 109-112
    3. Future Work

      • Robert Walter
      Pages 113-114
  6. Back Matter

    Pages 115-125

About this book

This book develops valuable new approaches to digital out-of-home media and digital signage in urban environments. It offers solutions for communicating interactive features of digital signage to passers-by. Digital out-of-home media and digital signage screens are becoming increasingly interactive thanks to touch input technology and gesture recognition. To optimize their conversion rate, interactive public displays must 1) attract attention, 2) communicate to passers-by that they are interactive, 3) explain the interaction, and 4) provide a motivation for passers-by to interact.

This book highlights solutions to problems 2 and 3 above. The focus is on whole-body interaction, where the positions and orientations of users and their individual body parts are captured by specialized sensors (e.g., depth cameras). The book presents revealing findings from a field study on communicating interactivity, a laboratory on analysing visual attention, a field study on mid-air gestures, and a field study on using mid-air gestures to select items on interactive public displays.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Telekom Innovation Laboratories Quality and Usability Lab, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin, Germany

    Robert Walter

About the author

Dr. Robert Walter is a research engineer in Advanced Driver Assistance Systems and researcher in Human-Computer Interaction. After his Ph.D. on Whole Body Interaction with Public Displays at Quality and Usability Lab of Telekom Innovation Laboratories and Berlin Institute of Technology, he joined the Technology and Innovation group at Siemens Mobility.

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Softcover Book USD 109.99
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Hardcover Book USD 109.99
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  • Durable hardcover edition
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