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File System Access for Tabletop Interaction

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The diverse and fast changing hardware for tabletop interaction has created exciting opportunities for new software interfaces that will enable people to exploit the potential of tabletops. This chapter describes our exploration of such software for the fundamental and important task of accessing digital information from people’s personal file stores. We explain how our novel associative file access mechanism was created in response to the particular challenges of tabletop interaction design, notably support for collaboration, effective use of each individual’s personal stores of digital information, accounting for the context of use, addressing the challenges of varying orientation of users around the table, and limited input. We illustrate the lessons we have learnt from a series of evaluations of our software interface and link these to future trends for supporting people in being able to collaborate on tasks that make use of personal files at tabletops.

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    Based on any textual file content and other available meta-data, such as keywords and filename.

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    Note that participants were not put under any time pressure to complete the tasks.

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This work is partly funded by the Smart Services CRC.

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    Collins, A., Kay, J. (2010). File System Access for Tabletop Interaction. In: Müller-Tomfelde, C. (eds) Tabletops - Horizontal Interactive Displays. Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84996-113-4_14

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