TR2005-053

DocuBits and Containers: Providing e-Document Micro-Mobility in a Walk-up Interactive Tabletop Environment


    •  Everitt, K., Shen, C., Ryall, K., Forlines, C., "DocuBits and Containers: Providing e-Document Micro-Mobility in a Walk-up Interactive Tabletop Environment", IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT), September 2005.
      BibTeX TR2005-053 PDF
      • @inproceedings{Everitt2005sep,
      • author = {Everitt, K. and Shen, C. and Ryall, K. and Forlines, C.},
      • title = {DocuBits and Containers: Providing e-Document Micro-Mobility in a Walk-up Interactive Tabletop Environment},
      • booktitle = {IFIP TC13 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT)},
      • year = 2005,
      • month = sep,
      • url = {https://www.merl.com/publications/TR2005-053}
      • }
  • Research Area:

    Human-Computer Interaction

Abstract:

A key challenge in supporting face-to-face collaborative work is e-document micro-mobility: supporting movement of digital content amongst shared display surfaces and personal devices at arbitrary levels of document granularity. Micro-mobility is a dexterity that physical paper artifacts afford - the ability to be handled with any position and placement, to be dismantled, cut and torn apart, marked up, reassembled and sorted. To support micro-mobility for electronic content and group work, we propose DocuBits and Containers. DocuBits offer the metaphor of a paper-cutter and a scanner for electronic documents. A portion of screen 'bits' from any application or any parts of visible display can be cut, grabbed, send and launched onto a different display surface or device with minimal interaction - merely three mouse/stylus click-select. Once arrived on the target display surface, DocuBits can be arbitrarily positioned, re-oriented, marked up, and pulled into other documents, or again send to other display surfaces. A Container is a composite draft of DocuBits and other documents, usually composed as the outcome of a collaborative meeting.

 

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