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Screened Intimacies: Tinder and the Swipe Logic Open
This article seeks to amplify discursive constructions of social connection through technology with an examination of the proposed and presumed intimacies of the Tinder app. In the first half, we ethnographically examine the sociotechnical…
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Benchmarking Touchscreen Biometrics for Mobile Authentication Open
We study user interaction with touchscreens based on swipe gestures for personal authentication. This approach has been analyzed only recently in the last few years in a series of disconnected and limited works. We summarize those recent e…
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Mobile behavioral biometrics for passive authentication Open
Current mobile user authentication systems based on PIN codes, fingerprint, and face recognition have several shortcomings. Such limitations have been addressed in the literature by exploring the feasibility of passive authentication on mo…
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Biometric Authentication Based on Touchscreen Swipe Patterns Open
In this work we investigated user authentication on mobile devices using touch behavior and micro movements of the device. The novelty of our work lies in the collection of user behavior data during the filling in of a psychological questi…
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iSenseStress: Assessing stress through human-smartphone interaction analysis Open
Stress condition, if experienced for an extended amount of time, can negatively affect individual's health. Several external sensors monitoring different physiological states correlated with stress, or smartphone apps that monitor individu…
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User interface design guidelines for smartphone applications for people with Parkinson’s disease Open
Parkinson's disease (PD) is often responsible for difficulties in interacting with smartphones; however, research has not yet addressed these issues and how these challenge people with Parkinson's (PwP). This paper specifically investigate…
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Assessment of numerical procedures for determining shallow foundation failure envelopes Open
The failure envelope approach is commonly used to assess the capacity of shallow foundations under combined loading, but there is limited published work that compares the performance of various numerical procedures for determining failure …
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Predicting sex as a soft-biometrics from device interaction swipe gestures Open
Touch and multi-touch gestures are becoming the most common way to interact with technology such as smart phones, tablets and other mobile devices. The latest touch-screen input capacities have tremendously increased the quantity and quali…
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Automated Separation of Uranium and Plutonium from Environmental Swipe Samples for Multiple Collector Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry Open
A fully automated method for the separation of low-concentration uranium from plutonium in environmental swipe samples has been developed. The offline chromatography system features renewable 1 mL Eichrom TEVA and UTEVA column generation f…
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SurfaceVibe Open
Touch surfaces are intuitive interfaces for computing devices. Most of the traditional touch interfaces (vision, IR, capacitive, etc.) have mounting requirements, resulting in specialized touch surfaces limited by their size, cost, and mob…
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MARS: Nano-Power Battery-free Wireless Interfaces for Touch, Swipe and Speech Input Open
Augmenting everyday surfaces with interaction sensing capability that is maintenance-free, low-cost (about $1), and in an appropriate form factor is a challenge with current technologies. MARS (Multi-channel Ambiently-powered Realtime Sens…
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Text Input for Non-Stationary XR Workspaces: Investigating Tap and Word-Gesture Keyboards in Virtual and Augmented Reality Open
This article compares two state-of-the-art text input techniques between non-stationary virtual reality (VR) and video see-through augmented reality (VST AR) use-cases as XR display condition. The developed contact-based mid-air virtual ta…
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Leveraging Dual-Observable Input for Fine-Grained Thumb Interaction Using Forearm EMG Open
We introduce the first forearm-based EMG input system that can recognize fine-grained thumb gestures, including left swipes, right swipes, taps, long presses, and more complex thumb motions. EMG signals for thumb motions sensed from the fo…
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99 + matches but a spark ain’t one: Adverse psychological effects of excessive swiping on dating apps Open
Studies showed adverse experiences related to the use of dating applications such as Tinder. However, it remains unclear by which mechanism and under which conditions dating app use has undesired effects. As a mechanism, we investigated ex…
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A Visual Analytic in Deep Learning Approach to Eye Movement for Human-Machine Interaction Based on Inertia Measurement Open
This paper proposes a hand free human-machine interaction (HMI) system to establish a novel way for communication between humans and computers. A regular interaction system based on the computer mouse puts the user's hand for too long in a…
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Toward Robotic Robbery on the Touch Screen Open
Despite the tremendous amount of research fronting the use of touch gestures as a mechanism of continuous authentication on smart phones, very little research has been conducted to evaluate how these systems could behave if attacked by sop…
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The How of Survey Self-report: VAS-Likert-Slide-Swipe... Same difference? Open
Self-report is a fundamental research tool for the social sciences. Despite quantitative surveys being the workhorses of the self-report stable, few researchers question their format—often blindly using some form of Labelled Categorical Sc…
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People with Learning Disabilities and Smartphones: Testing the Usability of a Touch-Screen Interface Open
Mobile phone technology is becoming ubiquitous. However, a number of unique usability challenges are still unresolved, including small screen size, device orientation changes, and an array of interaction methods (tap, flick, pinch, etc.) T…
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From tactile to virtual Open
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Evaluating authentication options for mobile health applications in younger and older adults Open
On mobile devices, PIN and pattern-lock outperformed graphical passwords and swipe-style fingerprints. All participants took longer to authenticate using the swipe-style fingerprint compared to other options. Older participants also took t…
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Twist It, Touch It, Push It, Swipe It Open
Touchscreen Human-Machine Interfaces (HMIs) inherently demand some visual attention. By employing a secondary device, to work in unison with a touchscreen, some of this demand may be alleviated. In a medium-fidelity driving simulator, twen…
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Invisiboard Open
The small displays of smartwatches make text entry difficult and time consuming. While text entry rates can be increased, this continues to occur at the expense of available screen display space. Soft keyboards can easily use half the disp…
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Gesture Recognition Method Using Acoustic Sensing on Usual Garment Open
In this study, we show a new gesture recognition method for clothing-based gesture input methods using active and passive acoustic sensing. Our system consists of a piezoelectric speaker and a microphone. The speaker transmits ultrasonic s…
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Gesture On Open
A significant percentage of mobile interaction involves short-period usages that originate from the standby mode-users wake up a device by pressing the power button, unlock the device by authenticating themselves, and then search for a tar…
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Direct Uranium Isotopic Analysis of Swipe Surfaces by Microextraction-ICP-MS Open
The ability to directly measure uranium isotope ratios on environmental swipes has been achieved through a solution-based microextraction process and represents a significant advancement toward the development of a rapid method to analyze …
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HMOG: A New Biometric Modality for Continuous Authentication of Smartphone Users. Open
In this paper, we introduce Hand Movement, Orientation, and Grasp (HMOG), a behavioral biometric to continuously authenticate smartphone users. HMOG unobtrusively captures subtle micro-movement and orientation dynamics resulting from how a…
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Screen or No Screen? Lessons Learnt from a Real-World Deployment Study of Using Voice Assistants With and Without Touchscreen for Older Adults Open
While voice user interfaces offer increased accessibility due to hands-free and eyes-free interactions, older adults often have challenges such as constructing structured requests and perceiving how such devices operate. Voice-first user i…
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Gesture Recognition Algorithm for Visually Blind Touch Interaction Optimization Using Crow Search Method Open
Touch screen interaction system is highly demanding for new innovations such as visual sensing, virtual key board system on the screen, three dimensional gesture communications methods, and RFID sensing etc. In spite of the existence of th…
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How We Swipe: A Large-scale Shape-writing Dataset and Empirical Findings Open
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Personalized Approach Bias Modification Smartphone App (“SWIPE”) to Reduce Alcohol Use Among People Drinking at Hazardous or Harmful Levels: Protocol for an Open-Label Feasibility Study Open
Background Alcohol accounts for 5.1% of the global burden of disease and injury, and approximately 1 in 10 people worldwide develop an alcohol use disorder. Approach bias modification (ABM) is a computerized cognitive training intervention…