Interactivity: Using Expressy to Demonstrate Expressiveness in Touch-based Interactions

  • Gerard Wilkinson ,
  • Gavin Wood ,
  • Jonathan Hook ,
  • Tom Nappey ,
  • Ahmed Kharuffa ,
  • Bradley Pursglove ,
  • Hendrik Haeuser ,
  • Nils Hammerla ,
  • Steve Hodges ,
  • Patrick Olivier

Proceedings of CHI 2016 |

Published by ACM - Association for Computing Machinery

We present an interactivity demonstration of Expressy. A system that augments existing touchscreen devices with a variety of continuous expressive interaction capabilities, using movement data from a wrist-worn IMU. Our demonstration comprises a set of applications that show how the expressive touch interaction capabilities, offered by Expressy, can enable intuitive and meaningful interactions, in contexts including productivity, entertainment and lifestyle apps. This demo submission accompanies a full paper, describing a conceptual model of expressive touch interaction and the implementation and evaluation of Expressy.