| Moving Data and Interfaces in an Interactive Workspace (2008) | |||||||||||||
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| The Interactive Workspaces Project at Stanford is investigating a world in which people will interact with rich environments with many computing devices. We imagine spaces filled with large high resolution displays with touch input, video cameras, speakers, and microphones as well as more traditional input devices like mice and keyboards. People will also carry with them a variety of mobile, wirelessly connected devices. These spaces will need to be dynamically configurable. Displays and speakers may be shifted around, or new devices added to the environment at the users discretion, and mobile devices will be constantly entering and leaving any given area. Further, to allow the use of existing devices and software, the infrastructure driving these spaces must allow the integration of legacy hardware and software. We believe three metaphors will define such a world: the ability to dynamically compose both legacy and new single device applications together to form workspace wide interaction environments, the need to move information freely between devices, and the need to move interfaces for applications onto the most convenient device. The first metaphor might be needed to coordinate the highlighting of information within a spreadsheet on one display and a related 3d model in a custom application on another. An example for the latter two metaphors: a user should be able to display a 3D model from their PDA on a large high resolution display nearby, and control it using direct touch manipulation, voice or their PDA as they see fit. | |||||||||||||
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