WatchMI: Pressure Touch, Twist and Pan Gestures on Unmodified Smartwatches [MobileHCI 2016]

For press release please visit ,629177, The screen size of a smartwatch provides limited space to enable expressive multi-touch input, resulting in a markedly difficult and limited experience. We present WatchMI: Watch Movement Input that enhances touch interaction on a smartwatch to support continuous pressure touch, twist, pan gestures and their combinations. Our novel approach relies on software that analyzes, in real-time, the data from a built-i