Investigating user tolerance for errors in vision-enabled gesture-based interactions

  • Authors:
  • Maria Karam;m. c. schraefel

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, United Kingdom;University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the working conference on Advanced visual interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2006

Quantified Score

Hi-index 0.00

Visualization

Abstract

In this paper, we describe our investigation into user tolerance of recognition errors during hand gesture interactions with visual displays. The study is based on our proposed interaction model for investigating gesture based interactions, focusing on three elements: Interaction context, system performance and user goals. This Wizard of Oz experiment investigates how recognition system accuracy rates and task characteristics in both desktop and ubiquitous computing scenarios can influence user tolerance for gesture interactions. Results suggest that interaction context is a greater influence on user tolerance than system performance alone, where recognition error rates can potentially reach 40% before users will abandon gestures and use an alternate interaction mode in a ubiquitous computing scenario. Results also suggest that in a desktop scenario, traditional input methods are more appropriate than gestures.