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The proliferation of smart technology in everyday objects provide an opportunity for human–machine collaborations, signaling a shift from typical principal-agent relationships. The current work proposes roboticizing familiar user interfaces to allow objects to communicate with their users without the need of an additional communication modality. We implemented a light switch that is capable of kinetic gestures and report an exploratory study that investigated how naïve users (n = 15) would respond to and interact with different gesture designs. A qualitative analysis of recorded interactions and semi-structured interviews reveal that users are surprised by unfamiliar automation and kinetic gestures serve as cues to promote discovery of the system’s mechanisms and mitigate assumed helplessness.

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Flip of a Switch: Designing a Kinetic Dialogue System for Switch Interfaces

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    2026年

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  • Maximilian Kullmann,
  • Jan Ehlers,
  • Eva Hornecker,
  • Lewis L. Chuang

摘要

The proliferation of smart technology in everyday objects provide an opportunity for human–machine collaborations, signaling a shift from typical principal-agent relationships. The current work proposes roboticizing familiar user interfaces to allow objects to communicate with their users without the need of an additional communication modality. We implemented a light switch that is capable of kinetic gestures and report an exploratory study that investigated how naïve users (n = 15) would respond to and interact with different gesture designs. A qualitative analysis of recorded interactions and semi-structured interviews reveal that users are surprised by unfamiliar automation and kinetic gestures serve as cues to promote discovery of the system’s mechanisms and mitigate assumed helplessness.