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Light widgets: interacting in every-day spaces

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Jerry Alan Fails,

Dan Olsen Jr.Authors Info & Claims

IUI '02: Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces

Pages 63 - 69

https://doi.org/10.1145/502716.502729

Published: 13 January 2002 Publication History

Abstract

This paper describes a system for ubiquitous interaction that does not require users to carry any physical devices. In this system, the environment is instrumented with camera/processor combinations that watch users while protecting their privacy. Any visible surface can be turned into an interactive widget triggered by skin-colored objects. Light widgets are tied to the XWeb cross-modal interaction platform to empower them with interactive feedback.

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