Title
Prismodule: Modular UI for Smartphones Using Internal Reflection
Abstract
The multi-touch interface is essential for smartphone user experience; however many issues such as a lack of physical feedback, the occlusion problem, and the reachability problem still remain. The back-of-device (BoD) approach is a way to address these issues; nevertheless, there are problems such as that the user finger or external landscape affects the view of the camera and that simultaneous input is difficult in the technique using the acceleration sensor. We propose a thin and low-cost method using internal reflection to actualize an additional physical UI on the back of the smartphone. No special devices such as mirrors are needed only acrylic panels and plastic parts. This method extends the smartphone input UI to include a physical button, dial, pointing stick, and also a slider. In addition, the method supports simultaneous input and overcome the effect of the user finger and external landscape.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1145/3332167.3356892
The Adjunct Publication of the 32nd Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Keywords
Field
DocType
back-of-device, physical input, rear-camera, smartphone, total internal reflection (tir)
Computer science,Total internal reflection,Human–computer interaction,Modular design,Multimedia
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6817-9
0
0.34
References 
Authors
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Takuya Kitade100.34
Wataru Yamada22915.22