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A malleable physical interface for copying, pasting, and organizing digital clips

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Florian Block,

Nicolas Villar,

Hans GellersenAuthors Info & Claims

TEI '08: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1347390.1347415

Published: 18 February 2008 Publication History

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We present a system that extends a typical workstation environment with a malleable physical interface for working with digital clips. It allows users to pick digital clips, give each its own dedicated key for direct access, and combine keys dynamically on a physical surface in a way that inherently reflects the state of an extended clipboard. The system affords copying and pasting of multiple clips each directly accessible through its own key shortcut. The keys can also be dynamically re-arranged to organize clips, and taken from workstation to another to transport clips, acting simultaneously as token and as copy-paste-interface for a digital object.

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Schmidt DSas CGellersen HMackay WBrewster SBødker S(2013)Personal clipboards for individual copy-and-paste on shared multi-user surfacesProceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2470654.2466457(3335-3344)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2470654.2466457
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A malleable physical interface for copying, pasting, and organizing digital clips
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TEI '08: Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Tangible and embedded interaction

February 2008

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ISBN:9781605580043

DOI:10.1145/1347390

Conference Chairs:
Albrecht Schmidt
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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Hans Gellersen
Lancaster University, UK
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Elise van den Hoven
Eindhoven University of Technology, NL
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Ali Mazalek
Georgia Institute of Technology, USA
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Paul Holleis
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany
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Nicolas Villar
Lancaster University, UK

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Ji HLee JLee GChoi MHeo JJeon SPark NJung H(2016)Exploring User Behavior on Mobile Copy-PasteProceedings of HCI Korea10.17210/hcik.2016.01.327(327-332)Online publication date: 27-Jan-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.17210/hcik.2016.01.327
Schmidt DSas CGellersen HMackay WBrewster SBødker S(2013)Personal clipboards for individual copy-and-paste on shared multi-user surfacesProceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/2470654.2466457(3335-3344)Online publication date: 27-Apr-2013
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2470654.2466457
Zaman LStuerzlinger WMould DNoël S(2010)A new interface for cloning objects in drawing systemsProceedings of Graphics Interface 201010.5555/1839214.1839220(27-34)Online publication date: 31-May-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.5555/1839214.1839220

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