Bringing sketching tools to keychain computers with an acceleration-based interface

  • Authors:
  • Golan Levin;Paul Yarin

  • Affiliations:
  • MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA;MIT Media Laboratory, Cambridge, MA

  • Venue:
  • CHI '99 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1999

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Abstract

We report the use of an embedded accelerometer as a gestural interface for an extremely small ("keychain") computer. This tilt- and shake-sensitive interface captures the expressive nuances of continuously varying spatio-temporal input, making possible a set of applications heretofore difficult or impossible to implement in such a small device. We provide examples of such applications, including a paint program and some simple animation authoring systems.