ArticleSensors (Basel, Switzerland)2026
Oringano: Shared Ring-Based Gestures for Controlling Internet of Things Devices in a Smart Home.
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Abstract
Smart rings are emerging as a promising class of sensing devices that enable unobtrusive, always-available interaction with Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems. These wearable devices support intuitive gesture-based control while minimizing user attention and preserving mobility. However, despite rapid advances in sensing hardware and gesture recognition algorithms, little is known about how users associate ring-based shared gestures with smart-home commands. To fill this gap, this paper presents Oringano, a framework for designing and evaluating a vocabulary of shared ring-based gestures for controlling IoT devices in a smart home. These gestures are original in that members of the same group can share the same gestures for the same actions, as well as gestures customized by each individual. The proposed approach combines (i) a synthesis of contemporary smart ring-based gesture interaction literature, (ii) a user-centered requirements elicitation identifying representative smart-home control actions, (iii) a gesture elicitation study involving N=30 participants to derive a vocabulary of shared ring-based gestures for 15 IoT control actions, (iv) an empirical analysis of gesture agreement and usability of Oringano, a smartphone prototype for managing shared ring-based gestures, and (v) a set of implications for designing shared gestures for future smart-ring systems. Experimental results demonstrate high agreement for concrete actions such as selection, navigation, and media control, whereas abstract actions exhibit greater variability, highlighting opportunities for personalized gestural interaction. The shared gestures benefit from a higher average agreement rate (+84%), a slightly lower goodness of fit (-13%), and a longer thinking time (+115%) than normal ring-based gestures. The subjective satisfaction resulting from the usability evaluation of Oringano, based on the elicited vocabulary, is overall positive (4.5/5). These results advance the design of next-generation ring-based systems by bridging user-centered gesture interaction with practical sensing technologies for IoT interaction.
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