An Extended Menu Navigation Interface Using Multiple Pressure-Sensitive Strips

We present extensions and modifications that we have made to a cursorless menu navigation interface that is controlled by multiple pressure-sensitive linear strips. Our approach is based on detecting pressure thresholds and dual-finger motions, allowing us to overcome the physical limitations of the prototype input device and virtually more than triple the number of linear strips that can be used for menu navigation. This allows the user to directly access and navigate in up to fourteen independent multiple-depth menu trees. Our system allows this breadth and depth of navigation without the need for an on-screen cursor, nor the need to navigate a 2D input device, thereby reducing the need for visual feedback. We have tried to design the on-screen graphical interface so that it can be easily used with very small field-of-view display devices, such as eyeglass displays. Additionally, since our input device is physically compact and can be easily positioned on different places on the bod...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: ISWC
• Authors: Gábor Blaskó, Steven Feiner
• Keywords: Input Device, ISWC 2003, Linear Strips, Menu Navigation