Keycube is a Kind of Keyboard (k 3)

Damien Brun (1, 2) , Charles Gouin-Vallerand (1) , Sébastien George (3, 2)

1 Centre LICEF - TÉLUQ - Laboratoire d'Informatique Cognitive et d'Environnements de Formation - Téluq, l'université à distance de l'UQAM
2 LIUM - Laboratoire d'Informatique de l'Université du Mans
3 IUT de Laval

Alternate realities through headsets, such as augmented, mixed and virtual reality are becoming part of people's everyday life. Except in some limited context, usual keyboards are inappropriate for such technological medium and alternative interfaces for text-entry must be explored. In this paper we present the keycube, a general-purpose cubic handheld device that goes beyond the text-entry interface by including multiple keys, a touch-screen, an inertial unit with six degrees-of-freedom and a vibrotactile feedback. Strong of its form factor and affordance, the keycube offers advantages with regards to mobility, comfort, learnability, privacy and playfulness. Thus, the combination creates a novel text-entry interface convenient for many use cases across the whole reality-virtuality continuum.

Mots clés: text-entry; Interactive device; mixed reality; cube; keyboard; virtual reality

Domaines: Environnements Informatiques pour l'Apprentissage Humain; Informatique [cs]; Interface homme-machine [cs.HC]

Damien Brun, Charles Gouin-Vallerand, Sébastien George. Keycube is a Kind of Keyboard (k 3). 2019 CHI Conference, May 2019, Glasgow, United Kingdom. pp.1-4, ⟨10.1145/3290607.3313258⟩. ⟨hal-02264937⟩