Facets of Distributed Display Environments

INTRODUCTION Distributed Display Environments come in diversely varied flavors and thus can arise and be applicable in different forms and spaces. In an interactive environment with multiple display surfaces, input interaction and output visualization are both equally important and challenging, and both can be characterized as multi-channeled and multisourced. In this position paper, we will discuss the workshop goals focusing on new interaction research in multi-surface DDEs. By multi-surface, we mean that a DDE in which walls, tables, tablet PCs, desktop displays and PDAs can be used in concert. The potential of DDEs goes beyond single-user multi-monitor desktop applications. Multiple physical information surfaces have long been used in certain industries that may offer us insights into both the fundamental HCI issues and the future for interaction and information visualization of DDE.