Experimenting Touchless Gestural Interaction for a University Public Web-based Display
This paper addresses the problem of designing effective touchless gestural interfaces for public web-based displays for university students, providing incremental insights.
This paper explores touchless gestural interaction for browsing a university website on a public display using Microsoft Kinect. The study evaluated user reactions to this interaction method, confirming a lack of standards and offering design inspirations.
Interest in and development of touchless gestural interfaces has recently exploded, fueled by the diffusion of both commercial midair gesture platforms and public interactive displays. This paper focuses on an application based on Microsoft Kinect that allows students to browse a university website, hosted on a public display, through simple gestures. We present two empirical evaluations where we evaluated how users react to this new way of interaction. In addition to confirming the current lack of standards, our results provide some inspiration for the design of touchless interaction.