SurfaceFleet: Exploring Distributed Interactions Unbounded from Device, Application, User, and Time

MoodCubes: Immersive Spaces for Collecting, Discovering and Envisioning Inspiration Materials

“…The current implementation of MoodCubes is set to the web browser. It would be interesting to see other representations, such as an independent applet that works across devices and applications on the desktop (similar to Surface-Fleet [5]), ways to see the MoodCube in AR, or even VR frst-person navigations. With VR it is particularly interesting that one would be working with a potentially infnite space that gives room for new interactions and immersive experiences in frst person.…”

Understanding Multi-Device Usage Patterns: Physical Device Configurations and Fragmented Workflows

“…Researchers have also delved into specific multi-device configurations such as dual-screen or multi-screen (e.g., [32,39,50]), tablet formations (e.g., [13,47]), companion devices such as mobile phones (e.g., [2,12,21,28,45]), or large screen displays (e.g., [4,16,51,63,66]). Prior work has also explored categories of application design techniques, including migratory interfaces [5,6,8] and migratable applications [26,27,64], which are asynchronous usage patterns related to the "migrate" pattern discussed by [11].…”

AirConstellations: In-Air Device Formations for Cross-Device Interaction via Multiple Spatially-Aware Armatures

“…In contrast to fixed interactive spaces, mobile setups are at the opposite end of the mobility spectrum (Figure 2) -built to afford high degrees of flexibility and dynamic configurations for different contexts. Some of these setups allow users to combine mobile devices (e.g., phones, tablets, e-readers, smartwatches) in unified interactions spanning across multiple devices [9,61]. Such setups can then support a wide range of user activities & tasks, including active reading [13,34], sharing personal media [60], sensemaking [106], and ad-hoc data exploration [52].…”

“…Our app facilitates sharing of documents during video conferencing. A user can share documents with other individual participants by using directional sliding gestures (Figure 6j) into the direction of the proxyscreen of another participant of the conversation, which creates a transient shared portfolio [9] (Figure 6k). A fade-in animation indicates this document sharing, where the shared portfolio slowly fades in when performing the sliding gesture -and the sharing can be revoked easily by reversing the gesture.…”

“…Our work aims to show how multiple AirConstellations devices used together in the same operating volume can afford some aspects from mobile interaction (and micro-mobility concepts from social theory [62]) while simultaneously offering some properties of semi-fixed device arrangements in a way that is flexible and delightful, allowing the effort of forming a particular device arrangement to repay itself over time because it stays put in mid-air once released. Such devices, in combination with appropriate applications, feedback, interaction techniques, and distributed systems foundations such as SurfaceFleet [9], may open up an intriguing new design space of highly dynamic and easily reconfigurable personal workspaces with dynamic in-air device formations.…”