Personal digital historian: user interface design

ABSTRACT

Desktop computers are not designed for multi-person face-to-face conversation in a social setting. We describe the design of a novel user interface for multi-user interactive informal storytelling. Our design is guided by principles of experience sharing, the disappearing computer, visual navigation, and implicit query formulation.

REFERENCES

• 1: Bastian Leibe , Thad Starner , William Ribarsky , Zachary Wartell , David Krum , Brad Singletary , Larry Hodges, The Perceptive Workbench: Toward Spontaneous and Natural Interaction in Semi-Immersive Virtual Environments, Proceedings of the IEEE Virtual Reality 2000 Conference, p.13, March 18-22, 2000
• 2: Marko Balabanović , Lonny L. Chu , Gregory J. Wolff, Storytelling with digital photographs, Proceedings of the SIGCHI conference on Human factors in computing systems, p.564-571, April 01-06, 2000, The Hague, The Netherlands [doi>10.1145/332040.332505]
• 3: Kang, H., Shneiderman, B., Visualization Methods for Personal Photo Collections: Browsing and Searching in the PhotoFinder, in Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Multimedia and Expo (ICME2000), New York City, New York.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.4 Systems and Software
          Subjects: User profiles and alert services

Additional Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.3 INFORMATION STORAGE AND RETRIEVAL
      H.3.3 Information Search and Retrieval
          Subjects: Query formulation
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
      H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)
          Subjects: Input devices and strategies (e.g., mouse, touchscreen)
      H.5.3 Group and Organization Interfaces
          Subjects: Web-based interaction

General Terms:
Algorithms, Design, Human Factors

Keywords:
multi-person interactive informal storytelling, table top display, the disappearing computer, visual navigation