Project Number
- 313
Title
- Focus-Plus-Context Screens: Context and Immersion on the Desktop
Description
- Low-resolution (context) and high-resolution (focus) embedded display for interactive data exploration.
Contact
- Patrick Baudisch
Affiliation
- Xerox PARC
Address
- 3333 Coyote Hill Road
- Palo Alto, California 94304
- patrick.baudisch@acm.org
WWW
Year
- 2002
Reference
- SIGGRAPH 2002 Conference Abstracts and Applications
Project Details
- "Focus plus context screens are wall-size, low-resolution displays with an embedded, high-resolution display region. Focus plus context screens allow users to view details of a document up close, while simultaneously seeing peripheral parts of the document in lower resolution. Application areas range from geographic information systems to interactive simulations and games."
- For the SIGGRAPH demonstration, the prototype context display is a large 4x3 foot projection surface for low-resolution display. Within the projection surface (foam core) is embedded an LCD monitor that functions as the high-resolution focus display. Customized software controls display image content across both screens. Content panned into the focus region is viewed in higher detail while preserving its scaling. Viewing satellite imagery allows resolving both cars and major landmarks in the same view.
Sight
- projection and LCD display panels, graphics workstation
Sound
Touch
Smell
Taste
Other
Emergence
- 1 - Innovation, Custom, Research
Intent
- 2 - Technique (paradigm, human)
Primary
- 203 - interactive paradigm, technique
Secondary
- 102 - display (immer,aug,ster)
Remarks
- Some implemented is under Linux
Last updated: 5 Jul 2002
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