SuperVision: Spatial Control of Connected Objects in a Smart Home

Sarthak Gosh (1) , Gilles Bailly (2, 3) , Robin Despouys (4, 3) , Eric Lecolinet (2, 3) , Rémi Sharrock (2, 3)

1 LTCI - Laboratoire Traitement et Communication de l'Information
2 DIVA - Design, Interaction, Visualization & Applications
3 INFRES - Département Informatique et Réseaux
4 ACES - Autonomic and Critical Embedded Systems

In this paper, we propose SuperVision a new interaction technique for distant control of objects in a smart home. This technique aims at enabling users to point towards an object, visualize its current state and select a desired functionality as well. To achieve this: 1) we present a new remote control that contains a pico-projector and a slider; 2) we introduce a visualization technique that allows users to locate and control objects kept in adjacent rooms, by using their spatial memories. We further present a few example applications that convey the possibilities of this technique.

Keywords: SuperVision; Visualization; Spatial memory; Smart Home; Pico-projector

Domains: Computer Science [cs]; Human-Computer Interaction [cs.HC]

Sarthak Gosh, Gilles Bailly, Robin Despouys, Eric Lecolinet, Rémi Sharrock. SuperVision: Spatial Control of Connected Objects in a Smart Home. CHI Extended Abstracts: ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Apr 2015, Soul, South Korea. pp.2079-2084, ⟨10.1145/2702613.2732779⟩. ⟨hal-01147717⟩