SPARSH: touch the cloud

Authors:
Pranav Mistry;Suranga Nanayakkara;Pattie Maes
Affiliations:
MIT Media Laboratory, CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA;MIT Media Laboratory, CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA;MIT Media Laboratory, CAMBRIDGE, MA, USA
Venue:
Proceedings of the ACM 2011 conference on Computer supported cooperative work
Year:
2011

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Abstract

SPARSH presents a seamless way of passing data among multiple users and devices. The user touches a data item they wish to copy from a device, conceptually saving it in the user's body. Next, the user touches the other device they want to paste/pass the saved content. SPARSH uses touch-based interactions as indications for what to copy and where to pass it. Technically, the actual transfer of media happens via the information cloud. Accompanying video shows some of the SPARSH scenarios.