Investigating How Smartphone Movement is Affected by Body Posture

Rachel Eardley; Anne Roudaut; Steve Gill; Stephen Thompson

doi:10.1145/3173574.3173776

Investigating How Smartphone Movement is Affected by Body Posture

Rachel Eardley
, Anne Roudaut
, Steve Gill
, Stephen Thompson

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Abstract

We present an investigation into how hand usage is affected by different body postures (Sitting at a table, Lying down and Standing) when interacting with smartphones. We theorize a list of factors (smartphone support, body support
and muscle usage) and explore their influence the tilt and rotation of the smartphone. From this we draw a list of hypotheses that we investigate in a quantitative study. We varied the body postures and grips (Symmetric bimanual,
Asymmetric bimanual finger, Asymmetric bimanual thumb and Single-handed) studying the effects through a dual pointing task. Our results showed that the body posture Lying down had the most movement, followed by Sitting at
a table and finally Standing. We additionally generate reports of motions performed using different grips. Our work extends previous research conducted with multiple grips in a sitting position by including other body postures, it is anticipated that UI designers will use our results to inform the development of mobile user interfaces.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018)
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-4503-5620-6
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173776
Publication status	E-pub ahead of print - 21 Apr 2018
Event	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2018 - Montreal, Canada Duration: 21 Apr 2018 → 26 Apr 2018 https://chi2018.acm.org

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Conference	2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2018
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Montreal
Period	21/04/18 → 26/04/18
Internet address	https://chi2018.acm.org

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Bristol Interaction Group

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Eardley, R, Roudaut, A, Gill, S & Thompson, S 2018, Investigating How Smartphone Movement is Affected by Body Posture. in Proceedings of the Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2018). Association for Computing Machinery, 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI EA 2018, Montreal, Canada, 21/04/18. https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173776

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