Suggestions for Visualising Physical Hyperlinks

Physical browsing is a tag-based and mobile device-centric interaction paradigm for ambient intelligence settings. It is a means of associating physical objects and their related digital information by creating physical hyperlinks. The tags, or physical hyperlinks from the user’s point of view, have to be visualised to tell the user of the existence and location of the links, how they can be selected and what action they contain. Based on link visualisation in desktop WWW, we present the problem domain, some suggestions for visualising links in ambient intelligence settings, and example visualisation designs to illustrate our ideas.