10-foot user interface

Kodi is an example of home theater PC software, which is designed to be displayed on a TV. It can be controlled using a remote, a game controller, or a keyboard.

In computing, 10-foot user interface, 10-foot UI or 3-meter user interface is a graphical user interface designed for televisions. Compared to desktop computer and smartphone user interfaces, it uses text and other interface elements which are much larger in order to accommodate a typical television viewing distance of 10 feet (3.0 meters). In reality, this distance varies greatly between households.[1] Additionally, the limitations of a television's remote control necessitate extra user experience considerations to minimize user effort.[2][3]

In the past, these types of human interaction design (HID) interfaces were driven by remote controllers primarily using infrared (IR) codes signals, which are increasingly replaced by other two-way radio-frequency protocol standards such as Bluetooth while maintaining the use of IR for certain wake-up situations. The voice interfaces are also now purposed to provide a near-field experience in addition to the far-field experience of the likes of smart speakers. One of the requirements of voice-input 10-foot user interface usually require a device like smart speaker, over-the-top (OTT) TV box or smart television with Internet connectivity supported by an advanced software operating system.[4]

  1. ^ Bertolus, Cédric; Bailleul, Daniel; Mersiol, Marc (August 29, 2017). "Viewing distance requires large characters to ensure legibility on TV-set". Proceedings of the 29th Conference on l'Interaction Homme-Machine (PDF). IHM '17. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 147–155. doi:10.1145/3132129.3132133. ISBN 978-1-4503-5109-6.
  2. ^ "The Digital Home: Designing for the Ten-Foot User Interface". Channel 9. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
  3. ^ "easyclasspage.de". www.easyclasspage.de. Retrieved March 8, 2019.
  4. ^ "Comscore's new trends report reveals significant spike in US OTT usage". ClickZ. September 1, 2020. Retrieved August 3, 2021.