Publication detail

Video Recording - A Promising Metaphor for Inter-Device Task Migration

KAJAN, R. SZENTANDRÁSI, I. HEROUT, A. PAVELKOVÁ, A.

Original Title

Video Recording - A Promising Metaphor for Inter-Device Task Migration

English Title

Video Recording - A Promising Metaphor for Inter-Device Task Migration

Type

conference paper

Language

en

Original Abstract

Throughout the day people are interacting with an ever increasing number of devices - smartphones, public displays, kiosks or a desktop computers. Currently, there is a lack of support for seamless task migration among devices - starting a task on one device and continuing it on another, without the need of manual application state inspection and data transfer. We are solving this problem by employing our framework for application state acquisition coupled with user interface based on an intuitive metaphor: video recording. Our interface allows for continuous interaction - mobile device's display is updated in real-time and receives continuous feedback. In every moment user is given relevant task and content-migration options for selected application. Our approach thus emphasizes spontaneous and unplanned content access with minimal user input, while being very responsive. The experimental results show that our solution provides reliable task migration at interactive frame rates. This substantially outperforms the existing solutions. We carried out a user study as well as empirical evaluation tests. The results indicate that the system is perceived as intuitive, easy to learn and effective in transferring ongoing tasks between the desktop/kiosk and a mobile device.

English abstract

Throughout the day people are interacting with an ever increasing number of devices - smartphones, public displays, kiosks or a desktop computers. Currently, there is a lack of support for seamless task migration among devices - starting a task on one device and continuing it on another, without the need of manual application state inspection and data transfer. We are solving this problem by employing our framework for application state acquisition coupled with user interface based on an intuitive metaphor: video recording. Our interface allows for continuous interaction - mobile device's display is updated in real-time and receives continuous feedback. In every moment user is given relevant task and content-migration options for selected application. Our approach thus emphasizes spontaneous and unplanned content access with minimal user input, while being very responsive. The experimental results show that our solution provides reliable task migration at interactive frame rates. This substantially outperforms the existing solutions. We carried out a user study as well as empirical evaluation tests. The results indicate that the system is perceived as intuitive, easy to learn and effective in transferring ongoing tasks between the desktop/kiosk and a mobile device.

Keywords

task migration, public displays, inter-device interaction

RIV year

2014

Released

13.07.2014

Publisher

University of West Bohemia in Pilsen

Location

Plzeň

ISBN

978-80-86943-69-5

Book

Journal of WSCG

Edition

NEUVEDEN

Edition number

NEUVEDEN

Pages from

95

Pages to

103

Pages count

8

Documents

BibTex 


@inproceedings{BUT111508,
  author="Rudolf {Kajan} and István {Szentandrási} and Adam {Herout} and Alena {Pavelková}",
  title="Video Recording - A Promising Metaphor for Inter-Device Task Migration",
  annote="Throughout the day people are interacting with an ever increasing number of
devices - smartphones, public displays, kiosks or a desktop computers. Currently,
there is a lack of support for seamless task migration among devices - starting
a task on one device and continuing it on another, without the need of manual
application state inspection and data transfer.

We are solving this problem by employing our framework for application state
acquisition coupled with user interface based on an intuitive metaphor: video
recording. Our interface allows for continuous interaction - mobile device's
display is updated in real-time and receives continuous feedback. In every moment
user is given relevant task and content-migration options for selected
application. Our approach thus emphasizes spontaneous and unplanned content
access with minimal user input, while being very responsive.

The experimental results show that our solution provides reliable task migration
at interactive frame rates. This substantially outperforms the existing
solutions. We carried out a user study as well as empirical evaluation tests. The
results indicate that the system is perceived as intuitive, easy to learn and
effective in transferring ongoing tasks between the desktop/kiosk and a mobile
device.",
  address="University of West Bohemia in Pilsen",
  booktitle="Journal of WSCG",
  chapter="111508",
  edition="NEUVEDEN",
  howpublished="print",
  institution="University of West Bohemia in Pilsen",
  year="2014",
  month="july",
  pages="95--103",
  publisher="University of West Bohemia in Pilsen",
  type="conference paper"
}