DeskPiles: tile-based zoomable UI for information management

DeskPiles is a tile-based zoomable UI for information management on Surface, tablets and interactive walls. It is the result of a cooperation project between the HCI Group of the University of Konstanz (Hans-Christian Jetter, Jens Gerken, Michael Zöllner, Toni Schmidt, Harald Reiterer), MSR Cambridge (Natasa Milic-Frayling, Gerard Oleksik, Rachel Jones) and the NanoPhotonics Centre of the University of Cambridge (Jeremy Baumberg).

DeskPiles is a prototype developed as part of the MSR research in distributed information management and collaborative work within a multi-device environment. The DeskPiles prototype enables collaborative arrangement and annotation of digital resources by creating a multi-user and multi-device interactive space. For collocated collaboration, we integrated MS Surface, wall displays, desktop PCs, and tablet PCs.

More information: http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/deskpiles/

Thanks to following students of the HCI Group Konstanz for their support: Marcus Specht, Anita Höchtl, Benjamin Frantzen, Stephan Huber.

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Science & Technology

Tags:

• deskpiles
• microsoft
• surface
• tablet
• PC
• information
• management
• zoomable
• user
• interface
• zoil
• multi-surface
• multi-user
• konstanz
• cambridge