@inbook{5253103453724e1caab728e3b1a2009f,
title = "Watchconnect: a toolkit for prototyping smartwatch-centric cross-device applications",
abstract = "People increasingly use smartwatches in tandem with other devices such as smartphones, laptops or tablets. This allows for novel cross-device applications that use the watch as both input device and output display. However, despite the in-creasing availability of smartwatches, prototyping cross-device watch-centric applications remains a challenging task. Developers are limited in the applications they can explore as available toolkits provide only limited access to different types of input sensors for cross-device interactions. To address this problem, we introduce WatchConnect, a toolkit for rapidly prototyping cross-device applications and interaction techniques with smartwatches. The toolkit provides developers with (i) an extendable hardware platform that emulates a smartwatch, (ii) a UIframework that integrates with an existing UI builder, and (iii) a rich set of input and output events using a range of built-in sensor mappings. We demonstrate the versatility and design space of the toolkit with five interaction techniques and applications.",
keywords = "Cross-device interaction, Gestural interaction, Interface design, Rapid pro-totyping, Smartwatch, Toolkit",
author = "S. Houben and N. Marquardt",
year = "2015",
month = apr,
day = "18",
doi = "10.1145/2702123.2702215",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781450331456",
series = "Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings",
publisher = "ACM/IEEE",
pages = "1247--1256",
booktitle = "CHI '15 Proceedings of the 33rd Annual ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems",
}