MixPad: augmenting interactive paper with mice & keyboards for cross-media and fine-grained interaction with documents

  • Authors:
  • Xin Yang;Chunyuan Liao;Qiong Liu

  • Affiliations:
  • UCSB, Santa Barbara, California, USA;FXPAL, Palo Alto, California, USA;FXPAL, Palo Alto, California, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 20th ACM international conference on Multimedia
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Existing interactive paper systems suffer from the disparate input devices for paper and computers. The finger-pen-only input on paper causes frequent devices switching (e.g. pen vs. mouse) during cross-media interactions, and may have issues of occlusion and precision. We propose MixPad, a novel interactive paper system, which allows users to exploit mice and keyboards to digitally manipulate fine-grained document content on paper, such as copying an arbitrary image region to a computer and clicking on a word for web search. With the combined input channels, MixPad enables richer digital functions on paper and facilitates bimanual operations cross different media. A preliminary user study shows positive feedback on this interaction technique.