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Cabinet: merging designers’ digital and physical collections of visual materials

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Designers currently keep both physical and digital collections of visual materials separately. Cabinet is an appliance prototype for merging the collections. Its design was built on a study of current design practice, and explorations in visual and inspirational interaction. The Cabinet provides an effortless interface for adding physical and digital images, organizing them into piles and narrative layouts, and reusing images. The prototype was evaluated in three one-month trials at prominent Dutch design firms.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Roy Gilsing of WAACS, Renate Frötscher of Fabrique and Renée Schuffelers of Smool for using the Cabinet in their every day design work for a month each. We would also like to thank the members of the ID-Studiolab and their guests for their invaluable feedback.

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  1. ID-StudioLab, Faculty of Industrial Design Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

    A. Ianus Keller, Aldo Hoeben & Aadjan van der Helm

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Keller, A.I., Hoeben, A. & der Helm, A.v. Cabinet: merging designers’ digital and physical collections of visual materials. Pers Ubiquit Comput 10, 183–186 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-005-0018-7

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