Title
MobiMed: comparing object identification techniques on smartphones.
Abstract
With physical mobile interaction techniques, digital devices can make use of real-world objects in order to interact with them. In this paper, we evaluate and compare state-of-the-art interaction methods in an extensive survey with 149 participants and in a lab study with 16 participants regarding efficiency, utility and usability. Besides radio communication and fiducial markers, we consider visual feature recognition, reflecting the latest technical expertise in object identification. We conceived MobiMed, a medication package identifier implementing four interaction paradigms: pointing, scanning, touching and text search. We identified both measured and perceived advantages and disadvantages of the individual methods and gained fruitful feedback from participants regarding possible use cases for MobiMed. Touching and scanning were evaluated as fastest in the lab study and ranked first in user satisfaction. The strength of visual search is that objects need not be augmented, opening up physical mobile interaction as demonstrated in MobiMed for further fields of application.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1145/2399016.2399022
NordiCHI
Keywords
Field
DocType
physical mobile interaction technique,interaction paradigm,possible use case,physical mobile interaction,lab study,visual feature recognition,visual search,state-of-the-art interaction method,digital device,object identification technique,text search,use case
Visual search,Fiducial marker,Use case,Ranking,Computer science,Usability,Full text search,Feature recognition,Human–computer interaction,Package Identifier,Multimedia
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
10
0.72
15
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Andreas Möller122218.35
Stefan Diewald217915.37
Luis Roalter320817.19
Matthias Kranz444237.93