DocuBits and containers: providing e-document micro-mobility in a walk-up interactive tabletop environment

Authors:
Katherine Everitt;Chia Shen;Kathy Ryall;Clifton Forlines
Affiliations:
Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA;Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA;Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA;Mitsubishi Electric Research Laboratories, Cambridge, MA
Venue:
INTERACT'05 Proceedings of the 2005 IFIP TC13 international conference on Human-Computer Interaction
Year:
2005

Citing 6
Cited 0

Mobility in collaboration

CSCW '98 Proceedings of the 1998 ACM conference on Computer supported cooperative work
i-LAND: an interactive landscape for creativity and innovation

Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Augmented surfaces: a spatially continuous work space for hybrid computing environments

Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Synchronizing clipboards of multiple computers

Proceedings of the 12th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology
WinCuts: manipulating arbitrary window regions for more effective use of screen space

CHI '04 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
ScreenCrayons: annotating anything

Proceedings of the 17th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

Quantified Score

Hi-index	0.00

Visualization

Abstract

A key challenge in supporting face-to-face collaborative work is edocument micro-mobility: supporting movement of digital content amongst shared display surfaces and personal devices at arbitrary levels of document granularity. Micro-mobility is a dexterity that physical paper artifacts afford – the ability to be handled with any position and placement, to be dismantled, cut and torn apart, marked up, reassembled and sorted. To support micromobility for electronic content and group work, we propose DocuBits and Containers. DocuBits offer the metaphor of a paper-cutter and a scanner for electronic documents. A portion of screen ‘bits’ from any application or any parts of visible display can be cut, grabbed, sent and launched onto a different display surface or device with minimal interaction – merely three mouse/stylus click-select. Once arrived on the target display surface, DocuBits can be arbitrarily positioned, re-oriented, marked up, and pulled into other documents, or again sent to other display surfaces. A Container is a composite draft of DocuBits and other documents, usually composed as the outcome of a collaborative meeting.