Paper Info
Title
Investigating how user avatar in touchless interfaces affects perceived cognitive load and two-handed interactions
Abstract
In recent years, touchless-enabling technologies have been more and more adopted for providing public displays with gestural interactivity. This has led to the need for novel visual interfaces aimed at solving issues such as communicating interactivity to users, as well as supporting immediate usability and \"natural\" interactions. In this paper, we focus our investigation on a visual interface based only on the use of in-air direct manipulations. Our study aims at evaluating whether and how the presence of an Avatar that replays user's movements may decrease the perceived cognitive workload during interactions. Moreover, we conducted a brief evaluation of the relationship between the presence of the Avatar and the use of one or two hands during the interactions. To this end, we compared two versions of the same interface, differing only for the presence/absence of the user's Avatar. Our results showed that the Avatar contributes to lower the perceived cognitive workload during the interactions.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.1145/3078810.3078831
PerDis
Keywords
Field
DocType
Touchless Gestural Interfaces, Public Displays, Interface Evaluation
Interactivity,Visual interface,Computer science,Usability,Cognitive workload,Human–computer interaction,Cognitive load,Multimedia,Avatar,Public displays
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-5045-7
1
0.35
References 
Authors
16
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Vito Gentile1309.90
Salvatore Sorce213020.48
Alessio Malizia326236.36
Fabrizio Milazzo4516.25
Antonio Gentile5729.40