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Tongyan Ning, Chat Wacharamanotham, Jörg Müller, Florian Alt, Robert Walter, Jan Borchers, Gilles Bailly
No Need To Stop: Menu Techniques for Passing by Public Displays
In: Proceedings of the 1st CHI Workshop on Large Displays in Urban Life. Vancouver, BC, Canada, May 7, 2011. (bib)

Although public displays are increasingly prevalent in public spaces, they are generally not interactive. Menu techniques can enable users to select what is interesting to them. Current touch screen techniques are unsuitable, because for many public displays, users merely pass by and rarely stop. We investigate command selection in this new context of passing-by interaction, in which users only have a few seconds to interact. We present six hands-free gestural techniques and evaluate them in a Wizard-of-Oz experiment. Based on the results of this study, we provide design recommendations for menu selection in passing-by situations.