Bumptop Prototype

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BumpTop- -aims to enrich the desktop metaphor with expressive, lightweight techniques found in the real world.

Our ideas about BumpTop, physically-based casual interfaces and pen-centric interactions are outlined in the below CHI paper and Masters thesis.

* Anand Agarawala, Ravin Balakrishnan. (2006). Keepin' it Real: Pushing the Desktop Metaphor with Physics, Piles and the Pen. Proceedings of CHI 2006 - the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. p. 1283-1292. (10 pages)
* Anand Agarawala. Enriching the Desktop Metaphor
with Physics, Piles and the Pen. University of Toronto, Masters Thesis. (102 pages)

Channel: Howto & Style
Uploaded: June 25, 2006 at 11:13 pm
Author: HSL

Length: 00:06:49
Rating: 4.56
Views: 501413

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Video Comments:
jaybones15 (January 28, 2007 at 9:16 am)
1. You can't see the file folder names?
2. What if you need a file at the bottom of the 'tidy pile'?
3. How does this add functionality to your desktop?
4. Why would anyone want their files in piles? Aren't file folders much neater and more organized?
5. Do you understand the difference between an operating system, and a real desktop?
My review? It looks gorgeous, but using this as an interface is unrealistic.
klarmer (January 28, 2007 at 8:38 am)
Points for novelty, but how do you distinguish between ten PDF files?
cowabuse (January 28, 2007 at 1:24 am)
Useless invention. So how does this enhance computing? We go back in time after computers replaced paper filing? ROFL. What else do you expect from Canada, eh?
axelbrinck (January 27, 2007 at 10:53 pm)
I want it!
Technomaniac92 (January 27, 2007 at 8:06 pm)
This is not so new, people ...I've seen countless touch-screen, free-for-all enviroment videos ...
UchihaSasuke97 (January 27, 2007 at 6:51 pm)
im sorry
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writingstatic (January 27, 2007 at 6:29 pm)
Nice one ForkyStick - as though these guys are measuring their innovation and success by what page of Digg they appear on.
earlandcat (January 27, 2007 at 5:49 pm)
Another GUI gimmick with no practical use.

Count me out.
narcsareworthless (January 27, 2007 at 5:31 pm)
I like it. I just can't run it.. yet..
smek2 (January 27, 2007 at 5:18 pm)
looks fun!