Portable Presentation Player: Mobile Viewing of User-Controllable Movies of Slide Presentations

Recorded presentations are difficult to watch on a mobile phone because of the small screen, and even more challenging when the user is traveling or commuting. This demo shows an application designed for viewing presentations in a mobile situation, and describes the design process that involved on-site observation and informal user testing at our lab. The system generates a user-controllable movie by capturing a slide presentation, extracting active regions of interest using cues from the presenter, and creating pan-and-zoom effects to direct the active regions within a small screen. During playback, the user can simply watch the movie in automatic mode using a minimal amount of effort to operate the application. When more flexible control is needed, the user can switch into manual mode to temporarily focus on specific regions of interest.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• pervasive computing
• fxpal
• mobile phone
• research