Abstract

Advancements in prototyping technologies – haptics and extended reality – are creating exciting new environments to enhance stakeholder and user interaction with design concepts. These interactions can now occur earlier in the design process, transforming feedback mechanisms resulting in greater and faster iterations. This is essential for bringing right-first-time products to market as quickly as possible.

While existing feedback tools, such as speak-aloud, surveys and/or questionnaires, are a useful means for capturing user feedback and reflections on interactions, there is a desire to explicitly map user feedback to their physical prototype interaction. Over the past decade, several hand-tracking tools have been developed that can, in principle, capture product user interaction.

In this paper, we explore the capability of the LeapMotion Controller, MediaPipe and Manus Prime X Haptic gloves to capture user interaction with prototypes. A broad perspective of capability is adopted, including accuracy as well as the practical aspects of knowledge, skills, and ease of use. In this study, challenges in accuracy, occlusion and data processing were elicited in the capture and translation of user interaction into design insights.

Details

Title
FROM HAPTIC INTERACTION TO DESIGN INSIGHT: AN EMPIRICAL COMPARISON OF COMMERCIAL HAND-TRACKING TECHNOLOGY
Author
Cox, Christopher Michael Jason 1 ; Hicks, Ben 1 ; Gopsill, James 1 ; Snider, Chris 1 

1  University of Bristol 
Pages
1965-1974
Section
Article
Publication year
2023
Publication date
Jul 2023
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
e-ISSN
2732-527X
Source type
Conference Paper
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1017/pds.2023.197
ProQuest document ID
2886571021
Copyright
The Author(s), 2023. Published by Cambridge University Press. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons  Attribution – Non-Commercial – No Derivatives License This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives licence (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is unaltered and is properly cited. The written permission of Cambridge University Press must be obtained for commercial re-use or in order to create a derivative work. (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.