Agency in mid-air interfaces

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Cornelio Martinez, Patricia Ivette, De Pirro, Silvana, Vi, Chi Thanh and Subramanian, Sriram (2017) Agency in mid-air interfaces. Published in: Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems; Denver, Colorado, USA; 06-11 May 2017. 2426-2439. Association for Computing Machinery, New York. ISBN 9781450346559

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Abstract

Touchless interfaces allow users to view, control and manipulate digital content without physically touching an interface. They are being explored in a wide range of application scenarios from medical surgery to car dashboard controllers. One aspect of touchless interaction that has not been explored to date is the Sense of Agency (SoA). The SoA refers to the subjective experience of voluntary control over actions in the external world. In this paper, we investigated the SoA in touchless systems using the intentional binding paradigm. We first compare touchless systems with physical interactions and then augmented different types of haptic feedback to explore how different outcome modalities influence users’ SoA. From our experiments, we demonstrated that an intentional binding effect is observed in both physical and touchless interactions with no statistical difference. Additionally, we found that haptic and auditory feedback help to increase SoA compared with visual feedback in touchless interfaces. We discuss these findings and identify design opportunities that take agency into consideration.

Item Type: Conference Proceedings
Keywords: Touchless interfaces, haptics, the sense of agency, intentional binding, gestures.
Schools and Departments: School of Engineering and Informatics > Informatics
School of Psychology > Psychology
Research Centres and Groups: Creative Technology
Sussex Addiction Research and Intervention Centre (SARIC)
Depositing User: Patricia Ivette Cornelio Martinez
Date Deposited: 20 Mar 2017 07:53
Last Modified: 14 Jul 2017 10:52
URI: http://srodev.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/67128

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