BumpTop

BumpTop

BumpTop is a prototype graphical user interface, designed to enhance traditional computer desktop functionality by more closely supporting the normal behavior of a real world desk. It is aimed at stylus interaction, making it more suitable for tablet PCs and palmtops. It was created at the University of Toronto as Anand Agarawala's Masters Thesis. Anand Agarawala also gave a presentation at the TED conference about his idea.

In BumpTop, documents are described by three-dimensional boxes lying on a virtual desk. The user can position the boxes on the desk using the stylus or mouse. Extensive use of physics effects like bumping and tossing is applied to documents when they interact, for a more realistic experience. Boxes can be stacked with well-defined stylus gestures. Multiple selection is performed by means of a LassoMenu, which fluidly combines into a single stroke the act of lasso selection and action invocation via pie menus.

References

* Agarawala, Anand. Ravin Balakrishnan. "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. pp. 1283-1292.

External links

* [http://bumptop.com Official site]
* [http://www.ted.com/talks/view/id/131 Video] of TED Presentation on BumpTop
* [http://thunderror.com/bumptop-physics-on-your-desktop/] BumpTop reviewed at thunderror.com


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