WatchOut: Extending Interactions on a Smartwatch with Inertial Sensing

watchoutsystemCurrent interactions on a smartwatch are generally limited to a tiny touchscreen, physical buttons or knobs, and speech. We present WatchOut, a suite of interaction techniques that includes three families of tap and swipe gestures which extend input modalities to the watch’s case, bezel, and band. We describe the implementation of a user-independent ges-ture recognition pipeline based on data from the watch’s embedded inertial sensors. In a study with 12 participants using both a round- and square-screen watch, the average gesture classification accuracies ranged from 88.7% to 99.4%. We demonstrate applications of this richer interaction capability,  and discuss the strengths, limitations, and future potential for this work.
and discuss the strengths, limitations, and future potential for this work.
This paper was published on the 20th International  Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC’16)  18 papers are accepted as full paper out of 132 submissions. [Paper][Video]
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