We are looking forward to the ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. This year, the conference will be in Yokohama, Japan. We are happy to contribute our recent work on smartwatch interaction as a late breaking work: MultiBezel. The poster will remotely be presented by Marvin Reuter. The work resulted from a prototype built by our students Marvin Reuter, Ali Ünal and Jan Felipe Kolodziejski Ribeiro during our master course on »Mobile and Distributed Interactive Systems«.
MultiBezel: Adding Multi-Touch to a Smartwatch Bezel to Control Music
Limited screen space and reliance on touch input pose challenges for intuitive interaction on smartwatches, often leading to screen occlusion and hindered usability. To overcome these limitations, this paper presents MultiBezel, a novel multi-touch enabled bezel designed to enhance interaction on smartwatches. MultiBezel utilises a gesture-based interaction scheme, mapping distinct finger combinations to control the smartwatch. This approach shifts interaction away from the touchscreen enabling new ways of eyes-free control. We developed a functional prototype that recognises up to three simultaneous touch points. This prototype demonstrates the feasibility of multi-touch bezel interaction for enhancing the smartwatch user experience. We contribute the hardware and software of our prototype and implemented an application for music control.
 | : MultiBezel: Adding Multi-Touch to a Smartwatch Bezel to Control Music. In: Adjunct Proceedings of the International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2025), ACM, New York, NY, USA, Forthcoming. |