Managing a document-based information space

  • Authors:
  • Matthias Deller;Stefan Agne;Achim Ebert;Andreas Dengel;Hans Hagen;Bertin Klein;Michael Bender;Tony Bernardin;Bernd Hamann

  • Affiliations:
  • DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany;DFKI GmbH, Kaiserslautern, Germany;University of California, Davis, CA;University of California, Davis, CA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 13th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We present a novel user interface in the form of a complementary virtual environment for managing personal document archives, i.e., for document filing and retrieval. Our implementation of a spatial medium for document interaction, exploratory search and active navigation plays to the strengths of human visual information processing and further stimulates it. Our system provides a high degree of immersion so that the user readily forgets the artificiality of our environment. Three well-integrated features support this immersion: first, we enable users to interact more naturally through gestures and postures (the system can be taught custom ones); second, we exploit 3D display technology; and third, we allow users to manage arrangements (manually edited structures, as well as computer-generated semantic structures). Our ongoing evaluation indicates that even non-expert users can efficiently work with the information in a document collection and that the process can actually be enjoyable.