Publication
Advanced Natural and Tangible Interfaces for Spatial Information
Johannes Schöning
In: Ubicomp 2009: Adjunct Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing Doctoral Consortium. International Conference on Ubiquitous Computing (Ubicomp-09), September 26-29, Copenhagen, Denmark, ACM, 2009.
Abstract
Since 6000 years humans have used maps to navigate
through space and solve other spatial tasks. Nearly all
of time maps were drawn or printed on a piece of paper
(or on material like stone or papyrus) of a certain size.
Thus the two most common interaction methods were:
(i) Holding the map in both hands (ii) or putting the
map on a tabletop and perform specific tasks.
Nowadays maps can be displayed on a wide range of
electronic devices, starting from small screen mobile
devices or highly interactive large multi-touch screen
and of course the 'old interaction schemas' cannot be
applied anymore. In my PhD thesis I investigate new
natural and tangible interfaces that allow intuitive
interaction with digital spatial information transferring
and/or preserving the 'old interaction schemas'. All
different sizes of devices are considered, starting from
mobile augmented reality interfaces, mobile projection
interfaces, or even large scale interactive multi-touch
surfaces.