Tangible drag-and-drop: Transferring digital content with a remote control

• Presented at: Edutainment 2009, Banff, Canada, August 9-11, 2009
• : Springer Berlin / Heidelberg, 2009

Despite the fact that dematerialization of all our multimedia content brings advantages, the absence of physical medium brings also a lack of tangibility. This paper presents a gesture-based interface to bring back tangibility in our dematerialized multimedia content. Our concept is to apply the drag-and-drop paradigm in the real world, using a remote control as a portal between virtual content and physical devices. In order to validate our concept, we designed a prototype focused on the transfer of digital pictures between two different devices: from a TV screen to a digital photo frame. User experiment has proven that our concept brings efficiency, easiness and a natural way to interact with digital multimedia content.

Keywords: tangible user interface ; dematerialized content ; drag-and-drop

Reference

• VRLAB-CONF-2009-005
• doi:10.1007/978-3-642-03364-3
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• URL: http://www.ask4research.info/edutainment/2009/

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