Hybrid Widgets on an Interactive Tabletop
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چکیده
We introduce the concept of hybrid widgets, which consist of a digital object on an interactive display surface, and a physical handle attached to it. We describe two implementations of this concept, both for the interaction with digital photo collections on an interactive tabletop, and discuss how the combination of a physical and a digital part in the hybrid widget supports interaction and solves some typical problems of multi-user tabletop interfaces.
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