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Keepin' it real: pushing the desktop metaphor with physics, piles and the pen

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Anand Agarawala and

Ravin BalakrishnanAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '06: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

April 2006

Pages 1283 - 1292

https://doi.org/10.1145/1124772.1124965

Published: 22 April 2006 Publication History

Abstract

We explore making virtual desktops behave in a more physically realistic manner by adding physics simulation and using piling instead of filing as the fundamental organizational structure. Objects can be casually dragged and tossed around, influenced by physical characteristics such as friction and mass, much like we would manipulate lightweight objects in the real world. We present a prototype, called BumpTop, that coherently integrates a variety of interaction and visualization techniques optimized for pen input we have developed to support this new style of desktop organization.

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