Intuitive user interface for mobile devices based on visual motion detection
STEFAN S. WINKLER, Karthik Rangaswamy, Zhiying Zhou · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 2007
The small form factor and unergonomic keys of mobile phones call for new and more natural approaches in user interface (UI) design. In this paper, we propose intuitive motion-based UI controls for mobile devices with built-in cameras based on the visual detection of the device's self-motion. We developed a car-racing game to test our new interface, and we conducted a user study to evaluate the accuracy, sensitivity, responsiveness and usability of our proposed system. Results show that our motion-based interface is well received by the users and clearly preferred over traditional button-based controls.