CRISTAL, control of remotely interfaced systems using touch-based actions in living spaces

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Seifried;Christian Rendl;Florian Perteneder;Jakob Leitner;Michael Haller;Daisuke Sakamoto;Jun Kato;Masahiko Inami;Stacey D. Scott

  • Affiliations:
  • Media Interaction Lab;Media Interaction Lab;Media Interaction Lab;Media Interaction Lab;Media Interaction Lab;University of Tokyo;University of Tokyo;Keio University;University of Waterloo

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH 2009 Emerging Technologies
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The amount of digital appliances and media found in domestic environments has risen drastically over the last decade, for example, digital TVs, DVD and Blu-ray players, digital picture frames, digital gaming systems, electronically moveable window blinds, and robotic vacuum cleaners. As these devices become more compatible to Internet and wireless networking (e.g. Internet-ready TVs, streaming digital picture frames, and WiFi gaming systems, such as Nintendo's Wii and Sony's Playstation) and as networking and WiFi home infrastructures become more prevalent, new opportunities arise for developing centralized control of these myriad devices and media into so called "Universal remote controls". However, many remote controls lack intuitive interfaces for mapping control functions to the device intended being controlled. This often results in trial and error button pressing, or experimentation with graphical user interface (GUI) controls, before a user achieves their intended action.