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Drivers have to take the safety of driving into account when they are interacting with the in-vehicle or personal devices. As a result, the micro-gestures performed on a steering wheel have potential benefits for drivers, as they can reduce mental workload and motor resources to a large extent. Without self-piloting system, a bicyclist can only observe the surroundings by naked eyes, thus it is important to measure how much the gesturing will distract users’ attention from riding. In addition, the design of micro-gestures should enable the variations of grasping posture of user in this context. With designers’ help, we devised a set of finger gestures for controlling music applications while cycling. In a lab experiment where the driving situation and field of vision are simulated, we asked 18 participants to perform the gestures in a dual-task test in response to voice triggers. The present study examined the effect of micro-gestures on cyclists’ performance of visual search, as well as the user satisfaction of this input technology.
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Xiao, Y., He, R. (2019). The Handlebar as an Input Field: Evaluating Finger Gestures Designed for Bicycle Riders. In: Stanton, N. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. AHFE 2018. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 786. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-93885-1_59
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