PaperWindows
In 2003, PolymerVision, a technology incubator for Philips, unveiled rollable displays. Such displays offer a new paradigm for interaction with mobile devices, handhelds, and the Desktop Computer. Imagine if you could literally pull a window off of your computer display, roll it up, and take it with you. Better yet, imagine if there was no display at all - simply a messy desk full of digital paper. You could pick up your digital document with your hands, move it around, or even fold it (as we do with physical, wood-based paper).
As the technology driving digital paper is new, full maturation is far off. Ideally, digital paper would be high resolution, wirelessly updated, touch sensitive, and consume little battery power. Fortunately, we can look past current limitations and explore the interaction space years before the technology is fully realized. Examples like Gummi achieve this. A prototype, matching the form and feel of the emerging technology, can aid the exploration of the interaction space and illustrate future use.
This is the central theme of PaperWindows. It explores how we might one day use digital paper. We define a set of interactions techniques based on the physical manipulation of paper. By projecting windows on physical paper, PaperWindows allows the capturing of physical affordances of paper in a digital world. The system uses paper as an input device by tracking its motion and shape with a Vicon Motion Capturing System.
Media
- PaperWindows Video in Turkish/Türk.avi // 77 megs // DivX Translation and remix by
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