InfoPoint: A Device that Provides a Uniform User Interface to Allow Appliances to Work Together over a Network

  • Authors:
  • Naohiko Kohtake;Jun Rekimoto;Yuichiro Anzai

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan;Interaction Laboratory, Sony Computer Science Laboratories, Tokyo, Japan;Department of Computer Science, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Personal and Ubiquitous Computing
  • Year:
  • 2001

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Abstract

This paper proposes a new hand-held device called “InfoPoint” that allows appliances to work together over a network. We have applied the idea of “drag-and-drop” operation as provided in the GUIs of PC and workstation desktop environment. InfoPoint provides a unified interface that gives different types of appliances “drag-and-drop”-like behaviour for the transfer of data. Moreover, it can transfer data from/to non-appliances such as pieces of paper. As a result, InfoPoint allows appliances to work together, in the real-world environment, in terms of data transfer. A prototype of InfoPoint has been implemented and several experimental applications have been investigated. InfoPoint has shown its applicability in a variety of circumstances. We believe that the idea proposed in this paper will be a significant technology in the network of the future.