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Fluid surface: interactive water surface display for viewing information in a bathroom

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Yoichi Takahashi,

Yasushi Matoba,

Hideki KoikeAuthors Info & Claims

ITS '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces

Pages 311 - 314

https://doi.org/10.1145/2396636.2396687

Published: 11 November 2012 Publication History

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Information is becoming accessible everywhere in everyday life due of the spread of smart phones and portable personal computers; however are very few methods in accessing contents in a bathing environment. Sometimes smart phones can be carried into a bathroom but it is unnatural to be holding a device at during bathing, so a suitable technique for information browsing in a bathing environment is required. We propose an interactive water surface display system, which uses image-recognition techniques. By using water, the system can perform an intuitive interaction peculiar to water such as poking a finger up from under the water surface, stroking the water surface and scooping up water. In this paper, we discuss interaction design in a bathroom, describing an implementation of our system and its applications.

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1. Human-centered computing
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ITS '12: Proceedings of the 2012 ACM international conference on Interactive tabletops and surfaces

November 2012

430 pages

ISBN:9781450312097

DOI:10.1145/2396636

General Chairs:
Orit Shaer
Wellesley College, USA
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Chia Shen
Harvard University, USA
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Microsoft Research, USA
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