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Guidance on Gesture Interactions and Interfaces

(G²I²)

Gestures are taking over as the preferred means of interacting with all kinds of systems. But while this uptake is widespread, the diversity of gestures and their uses in interfaces could easily lead to widespread confusion as different systems use different gestures to mean the same thing while using the same gestures to mean different things. Likewise, there is a wide diversity of the way gestures are produced by humans and input into systems.

With our increasing experience of gesture interactions and research into gesture-based interfaces, it is time to consolidate our knowledge in order to guide developers of such interfaces toward a smooth and usable future.

USERLab (at the University of Saskatchewan, Canada) is hosting on behalf of ISO TC159/SC4/WG9 Tactile/haptic interactions

a unique conference on Guidance on Gesture Interactions and Interfaces (G²I²)

to accumulate guidance that can form the basis of international standards

on the design and use of gestures and gesture interfaces.

G²I² is a unique opportunity for a small gathering of experts to move the state of the practice ahead in a significant manner.

• Registration and hotel costs will be kept low in order to encourage participation.
• Participation in G²I² will be by invitation only, based on the acceptance of a suitable paper.
• Anyone interested in G²I² is encouraged to submit a paper for consideration. Please pass on this call to any other potential contributors.
• Papers are due by May 31, 2013 and invitations will be issued by July 1, 2013
• Invitations will be sent to all co-authors of an accepted paper

Topics of Interest include:

• Frameworks of gestures or gesture interactions that can be used for organizing and applying guidance
• Guidance on producing gestures (including methods, capabilities limitations, etc.)
•  gestures produced by various human body parts (e.g. fingers, hands, arms, eyes, whole body), including substituting body parts (e.g. foot for hand, left hand for right hand)
• gestures produced by direct human interaction with tactile/haptic input devices (e.g. mice, touch surfaces, pointing devices, specialty devices)
• gestures produced by technology (e.g. robotics, visual presentation of gestures on display devices)
• Guidance on receiving gestures
• reception of gestures via direct contact with tactile/haptic devices/senses
•  reception of gestures via (computer or human) vision
• Guidance on understanding gestures, including but not limited to
• meaning of individual gestures (including variations on a gesture)
• discriminability issues between different gestures
•  reserving certain gestures for universal applicability
• origins of gestures (e.g. existing symbols, actions, metaphors)
•  cultural differences affecting gestures
•  merits of intuitive vs. non-intuitive gestures
• gestures with and without physical objects
•  families of gestures (including distinctions between and combinations of gestures)
• gesture vocabularies (including machine based vocabularies and human sign languages)
• providing feedback to gestures
• Guidance on various aspects of gestures, including but not limited to
• dimensions involved in a gesture (e.g. 2-D gestures, 3-D gestures)
•  temporal aspects of gestures (e.g. fixed pose or stop motion gestures vs. dynamic gestures)
• flow of gestures (from initiation to termination)
• scaling issues relating to gestures (in time and space)
• accessibility of gestures
• application/domain specific aspects of gestures
• Guidance on designing / using gestures, including:
•  learning, guessing, and developing new gestures
• gesture exploration methods (including providing training and help to learn or find gestures)
• design methods (specific to developing individual gestures and gesture based interfaces)
• evaluation methods (to establish the usability of gestures)

Submissions

G²I² welcomes papers that focus on guidance that is based on research and practice. Research results, presented on their own, are not enough. We are looking for ways that the results can lead to generalizable guidance that can be applied by developers.

• Papers should be submitted electronically to: G2I2@cs.usask.ca with the subject = G2I2 paper submission no later than May 31, 2013.
• Because the proceedings will be electronic in nature, there is no limitation to the number of pages for submitted papers. Authors are requested to use a length reasonable to convey the intended information.
• Papers should be submitted either as WORD or PDF documents. In order to promote a uniform look to the G²I² proceedings we ask that submissions conform to ACM Proceedings format (found in the template at: http://www.acm.org/sigs/publications/proceedings-templates), which involves a nine point font on ten point baseline, two columns per page, each column 3.33 inches wide by 9 inches tall, with a column gutter of 0.33 inches, etc.

Conference Committee

Conference chair:       Jim Carter, U. of Saskatchewan, Canada

Program chair:             Ian Sinclair, MPB Communications, Canada

Program committee:

Ian Andrew, HF Engineer, UK

Stephen Brewster, University of Glasgow, UK

Linda Elliott, U.S. Army Research Lab, USA

Jan Van Erp, TNO Human Factors, Netherlands

David Fourney, Ryerson University, Canada

Marcelo Wanderley, McGill University, Canada

Jeong Hyuk, ETRI, Korea

Jee-In Kim, Konkuk University

Ki-Uk Kyung, ETRI, Korea

Charlotte Magnusson, Lund University, Sweden

Gerhard Weber, Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany

Publications

G²I² proceedings:

All accepted papers will be made freely available in pdf format on the G²I² website.

Authors will retain full copyright to their submissions as long as they allow G²I² to post a copy of their paper and to use guidelines and models from their paper.

Follow-up publications:

The participants of G²I² will decide on a suitable reviewed and edited format (journal or book) for publishing revised versions of the papers. It is expected that revisions will take into account the presentations and discussions that take place at G²I². In this way, readers will get a more useful understanding of the topics covered.

Information from G²I² papers, presentations, and discussions will be made available to various working groups of the International Organization for Standardization (including ISO TC159/SC4/WG9 Tactile/haptic interactions and ISO/IEC JTC1/SC35 User interfaces) to use with international standards relating to gestures and gesture interfaces.

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