MIC is a collaborative grant project funded by The French National Research Agency (grant number ANR-22-CE33-0017), started in November 2022 and for 48 months.
MIC aims at studying and promoting microgesture-based interaction by putting it in practice in real-life use situations. Microgestures are hand gestures performed on one hand with the same hand. Examples include tap and swipe gestures performed by one finger on another finger. We study interaction techniques based on microgestures or on the combination of microgestures with another modality including haptic feedback as well as mechanisms that support discoverability and learnability of microgestures.
We focus on three different contexts of use: