Tangible Media Control System for Intuitive Interactions with Multimedia Contents

Sejin OH
Woontack WOO

Publication
IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Information and Systems   Vol.E89-D    No.1    pp.53-61
Publication Date: 2006/01/01
Online ISSN: 1745-1361
DOI: 10.1093/ietisy/e89-d.1.53
Print ISSN: 0916-8532
Type of Manuscript: Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Artificial Reality and Telexistence)
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Keyword: 
tangible user interface,  context-awareness,  interactive media controller,  personalized contents,  

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Summary: 
In this paper, we present the Tangible Media Control System (TMCS), which allows users to manipulate media contents through physical objects in an intuitive way. Currently, most people access digital media contents by exploiting GUI. However, it only provides limited manipulation of the contents. The proposed system, instead of a mouse and a keyboard, adopts two types of tangible objects, i.e. a RFID-enabled object and a tracker-embedded object. The TMCS enables users to easily access and control digital media contents through tangible objects. In addition, it supports an interactive media controller which can be used to synthesize media contents according to users' taste. It also offers personalized contents, which suits users' preferences, by exploiting context such as the users' profile and situational information. Accordingly, the TMCS demonstrates that tangible interfaces with context can provide more effective interfaces to satisfy users' demands. Therefore, the proposed system can be applied to various interactive applications such as multimedia education, entertainment, multimedia editor, etc.

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