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Phone proxies: effortless content sharing between smartphones and interactive surfaces

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Alexander Bazo,

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EICS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems

Pages 229 - 234

https://doi.org/10.1145/2607023.2610276

Published: 17 June 2014 Publication History

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We present Phone Proxies, a technique for effortless content sharing between mobile devices and interactive surfaces. In such a scenario, users often have to perform a lengthy setup process before the actual exchange of content can take place. Phone Proxies uses a combination of custom NFC (near-field communication) tags and optical markers on the interactive surface to reduce the user interaction required for this setup process to an absolute minimum. We discuss two use cases: "pickup", in which the user wants to transfer content from the surface onto their device, and "share", in which the user transfers device content to the surface for shared viewing. We introduce three possible implementations of Phone Proxies for each of these use cases and discuss their respective advantages.

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Phone proxies: effortless content sharing between smartphones and interactive surfaces
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EICS '14: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems

June 2014

312 pages

ISBN:9781450327251

DOI:10.1145/2607023

Conference Chair:
Fabio Paternò
CNR-ISTI, Italy
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Carmen Santoro
Carmen Santoro (CNR-ISTI, Italy
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Jürgen Ziegler
University of Duisburg-Essen, Germany

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Blumenstein KKaltenbrunner MSeidl MBreban LThür NAigner WSubramanian SSteimle JDachselt RMartinez Plasencia DGrossman T(2017)Bringing Your Own Device into Multi-device EcologiesProceedings of the 2017 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces10.1145/3132272.3132279(306-311)Online publication date: 17-Oct-2017
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Xiao RHudson SHarrison CHancock MMarquardt NSchöning JTory M(2016)CapCamProceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces10.1145/2992154.2992182(169-178)Online publication date: 6-Nov-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2992154.2992182

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