Exploring tilting methods for typing under water

ČEJKA, Jan, Jiří CHMELÍK and Fotios LIAROKAPIS. Exploring tilting methods for typing under water. Multimedia Tools and Applications. Springer London, 2021, vol. 20, No 80, p. 31085-31103. ISSN 1380-7501. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-09305-7.

Basic information

• Original name: Exploring tilting methods for typing under water
• Authors: ČEJKA, Jan (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution), Jiří CHMELÍK (203 Czech Republic, belonging to the institution) and Fotios LIAROKAPIS (300 Greece, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: Multimedia Tools and Applications, Springer London, 2021, 1380-7501.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 10200 1.2 Computer and information sciences
• Country of publisher: Switzerland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: URL
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 2.577
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14330/21:00120669
• Organization unit: Faculty of Informatics
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11042-020-09305-7
• UT WoS: 000560297300001
• Keywords in English: Underwater interaction;Typing;Keyboard;Tilting;User study
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

Underwater environments are still providing significant challenges for diver communication and interaction. Smartphones and tablets have the potential to provide great assistance for divers under water and even allow them to utilize augmented and mixed reality, but the housing solutions limit their capabilities. In particular, interaction with them cannot harness a touch screen medium. This paper presents a novel way of providing textual input in underwater environments. The concept is utilizing orientation sensors allowing for tilting a smartphone to input textual information. Three different titling configurations of keyboards were implemented and evaluated on land and in a swimming pool in a user study that involved 17 healthy volunteers and assessed their performance in two different conditions reflecting two typical diving poses. Results clearly demonstrate the benefit of this technique and suggest more effective configurations. A following discussion derives general recommendations for implementing similar methods that use tilting to interact with devices under water.

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• 727153, interní kód MU: Name: Advanced VR, iMmersive serious games and augmented reality as tools to raise awareness and access to European underwater Cultural heritage (Acronym: iMARECULTURE)

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