A visual interface for multi-person exploration of personal databases

Authors:
Chia Shen;Frederic Vernier;Neal Lesh
Affiliations:
Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), Cambridge, MA;Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), Cambridge, MA;Mitsubishi Electric Research Labs (MERL), Cambridge, MA
Venue:
Proceedings of the Working Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
Year:
2002

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Abstract

The Personal Digital Historian (PDH) is an ongoing research project aimed at allowing small groups of people co-present to casually browse, embellish, and explore large collections of their personal data, such as pictures, video, or more business-related items such as spreadsheets or PowerPoint slides. In this interactive poster, we demonstrate our initial prototype system which is designed for a tabletop display. The interface allows people to organize their images along the four questions essential to storytelling: who?, when?, where?, and what? Users are provided with a wide variety of flexible interaction methods, including region of interest query specification with in-place freeform stroke input, image-based book marking, suggestion generation via automatic query relaxation, and output summarization. With this interface, the users can enjoy their conversation while having the photos at their fingertips, rather than being distracted by the effort of formulating queries.