Back in December I found out that some of the work I had done last year at the UofA was accepted for publication \/\u00a0presentation at CHI 2013 in Paris, France. I\u2019m super excited to talk about this work as I was really excited about the results and of course, a stop in Paris means a stop at Disneyland Paris!<\/p>\n
Here is the abstract of the work, as well as the CHI Video Preview which was a new component for submissions this year.<\/p>\n
This work examines intermanual gesture transfer, i.e., learning a gesture with one hand and performing it with the other.\u00a0Using a traditional retention and transfer paradigm from the motor learning literature, participants learned four gestures on a touchscreen. The study found that touchscreen gestures transfer, and do so symmetrically. Regardless of the hand used during training, gestures were performed with a comparable level of error and speed by the untrained hand, even after 24 hours. In addition, the form of a gesture, i.e., its length or curvature, was found to have no influence on transferability. These results have important implications for the design of stroke-based gestural interfaces: acquisition could occur with either hand and it is possible to interchange the hand used to perform gestures. The work concludes with a discussion of these implications and highlights how they can be applied to gesture learning and current gestural systems.<\/em><\/p>\n