CheekInput: turning your cheek into an input surface by embedded optical sensors on a head-mounted display

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2017

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Yamashita, K.
Kikuchi, T.
Masai, K.
Sugimoto, M.
Thomas, B.H.
Sugiura, Y.

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Spencer, S.N.

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VRST '17 Proceedings of the 23rd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, 2017 / Spencer, S.N. (ed./s), vol.Part F131944, iss.19, pp.1-8

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23rd ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology; VRST '17 (8 Nov 2017 - 10 Nov 2017 : Gothenburg, Sweden)

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In this paper, we propose a novel technology called "CheekInput" with a head-mounted display (HMD) that senses touch gestures by detecting skin deformation. We attached multiple photo-reflective sensors onto the bottom front frame of the HMD. Since these sensors measure the distance between the frame and cheeks, our system is able to detect the deformation of a cheek when the skin surface is touched by fingers. Our system uses a Support Vector Machine to determine the gestures: pushing face up and down, left and right. We combined these 4 directional gestures for each cheek to extend 16 possible gestures. To evaluate the accuracy of the gesture detection, we conducted a user study. The results revealed that CheekInput achieved 80.45 % recognition accuracy when gestures were made by touching both cheeks with both hands, and 74.58 % when by touching both cheeks with one hand.

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Copyright 2017 Association for Computing Machinery

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