Tangible Drag-and-Drop: Transferring Digital Content with a Remote Control

  • Authors:
  • Mathieu Hopmann;Daniel Thalmann;Frédéric Vexo

  • Affiliations:
  • VRLab, EPFL, Switzerland;VRLab, EPFL, Switzerland;VRLab, EPFL, Switzerland

  • Venue:
  • Edutainment '09 Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on E-Learning and Games: Learning by Playing. Game-based Education System Design and Development
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

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.