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Managing a Document-Based Information Space

Matthias Deller; Stefan Agne; Achim Ebert; Andreas Dengel; Hans Hagen; Bertin Klein; Michael Bender; Tony Bernadin; Bernd Hamann
In: J. M. Bradshaw; H. Liebermann; S. Staab (Hrsg.). Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces. International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI-2008), 13th, January 13-16, Maspalomas, Spain, Pages 119-128, ACM Press, 2008.

Zusammenfassung

We present a novel user interface in the form of a complementary virtual environment for managing personal document archives, i.e., for document filing and retrieval. Our implementation of a spatial medium for document interaction, exploratory search and active navigation plays to the strengths of human visual information processing and further stimulates it. Our system provides a high degree of immersion so that the user readily forgets the artificiality of our environment. Three wellintegrated features support this immersion: first, we enable users to interact more naturally through gestures and postures (the system can be taught custom ones); second, we exploit 3D display technology; and third, we allow users to manage arrangements (manually edited structures, as well as computer-generated semantic structures). Our ongoing evaluation shows that even nonexpert users can efficiently work with the information in a document collection and that the process can actually be enjoyable.

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