Gesture-aware remote controls: guidelines and interaction techniques

This document discusses guidelines and interaction techniques for gesture-aware remote controls. It summarizes experiments conducted to understand how users naturally use gestures with remote controls and smartphones, and to explore using roll gestures to select among different numbers of items without visual feedback. The first experiment found that users typically use pitch and yaw rotations with remote controls but pitch and roll with smartphones. The second experiment tested how precisely users could select among 5, 7, 9 or 11 items using roll gestures alone without visual feedback to guide the selection. The results of these experiments could inform the design of new interaction techniques using gestures with remote controls.