We introduce and illustrate a design framework whereby tabletop documents are oriented according to vector fields that can be visualized and altered by end users. We explore and illustrate the design space using interactive 2D mockups and show how this approach can potentially combine the advantages of the fully manual and fully automatic document orientation methods previously proposed in the literature.
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Pierre Dragicevic and Yuanchun Shi. Visualizing and Manipulating Automatic Document Orientation Methods Using Vector Fields. Proceedings of the International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces (Tabletop '09 short paper), Banff, Alberta, November 23-25, 2009. ACM Press, New York, NY, 65-68.
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Three short video clips illustrating simple usage scenarios. Click on the image to download.
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| Creating a personal space. | Temporarily reorienting documents. | Creating a shared space. |
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| Related Work |
A piece of related work has been brought to our attention after the publication of our article:
Tobias Isenberg, Simon Nix, Martin Schwarz, André Miede, Stacey D. Scott, and Sheelagh Carpendale. Mobile Spatial Tools for Fluid Interaction. Technical report 2007-872-24, Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, July 2007.
This work introduces the concept of interaction buffer, which can be seen as a generalization of our orientation fields since it can support not only orientation, but also other attributes such as size or location. However, interaction buffers are not explicitely and persistently visualized, so they are invisible unless the table is covered with documents. Also, interaction buffers are altered using magic lenses or a painting metaphor rather than gestures. These techniques have their advantages but are limited to predefined shapes.
See their project Web page.
| Aknowledgements |
This work was done while I was visiting the Pervasive Human Computing Interaction Lab at Tsinghua University in June 2007.
| Contact |
Pierre Dragicevic (www)
Yuanchun Shi (www)
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