Peripheral Interaction by Saskia Bakker Doris Hausen & Ted Selker

Author:Saskia Bakker, Doris Hausen & Ted Selker
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Springer International Publishing, Cham

Instead of having objects in the environment imbued with interaction capabilities, we have also explored the concept of making use of any object for casual interactions (Pohl and Rohs 2014). Imagine your whole living room being tracked (e.g., by your phone or a stationary setup), and thus, any touch or other interaction with objects in the room being available as a means for input (as illustrated in Fig. 6.4). Instead of, e.g., having a dimmer control embedded into a device, you could repurpose any nearby object to temporarily fulfill the same role. Objects repurposed in this way can offer good affordances for many tasks (e.g., round objects invite turning and squishy objects invite pressing). While this makes them well suited as interactors, this also means less attention has to be paid when interacting with them. Turning a mug around can be done in the periphery, while modifying an on-screen dial requires at least visual focus on the interface.

Fig. 6.4Instead of embedding input capabilities into objects around us, we can leave them as is and track them externally. Manipulations of such objects or touches on them can then be used as a means of input. We can, for example, temporarily make a nearby coffee mug a volume slider or press down on a hacky sack to use it as a transient button. Such appropriation of objects can be limited to a given interaction window (e.g., the hacky sack is only a button when a call is coming in), or persist over longer durations (when objects are explicitly set aside for specific interactions)

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