Is there a Box in your future?

1. Is there a Box in your future? George G. Robertson Principal Researcher Visualization and Interaction Research Microsoft Corporation

2. Star Cops and Box • 1987 BBC science fiction detective series • Nathan Spring is Commander of a new International Space Police Force in 2027 • Box is a small digital personal assistance that Nathan carries with him

3. Box Characteristics “Look for connections … that’s any connection, however tenuous.” Nathan Spring • Voice communication • Monitor all activity in vicinity • Access to information world wide • Ability to display & interact with information on any display surface • Problem solving assistant

4. Can we build Box now? • Use PPC Phone or Smartphone • Voice communication • Monitor all activity in vicinity • Access to information world wide • Ability to display & interact with information on any display surface • Problem solving assistant

5. Related Work • Pebbles – Myers (CACM 2001) • Collaboration • Remote mouse (or remote control) • PDAs ® PCs • SharedNotes – Greenberg (Personal Technologies 1999) • Shared notes • PDAs « shared displays

6. Related Work (cont.) • Pick and Drop – Rekimoto (CHI 1998) • Moving objects • PDA « display • WinCuts – Tan (CHI 2004) • Shared window regions • Laptop ® shared display • Dynamo – Izadi (UIST 2003) • Exchanging media • Laptop ® shared display

7. Related Work (cont.) • Personal Server – Want (UbiComp 2002) • Use of surrounding computing infrastructure • A portable personal identity • Display-free device ® networked resources • Personalized Shared Ubiquitous Devices – Hilbert & Trevor (Interactions 2004) • Documents accessed via browser • PC or PDA ® display

8. Box 0.9 – What Might It Do? • Portable personal identity (secure) • Portable personal workspace • Access to things I’ve been working on • Access through the cloud (or cached) • Display my work on any nearby display • Share my work with others • Port my work from one location to another

9. Building Box 0.9 – Initial Steps • Collaboration with Dan Olsen @ BYU • XICE – Extended Interaction Everywhere Wall Display Pocket PC Phone Smartphone

10. Building Box 0.9 – Initial Steps • Application runs on mobile device • Shared display used for display & input XICE manages scene graph App running here puts window up on shared display

11. Building Box 0.9 – Initial Steps • Either mobile device can initiate window management operations App running here puts 2nd window up on shared display

12. Building Box 0.9 – Initial Steps • Input can be local to mobile device • Or on the shared display

13. Building Box 0.9 – Initial Steps • Input can be redirected to enable shared applications Input from here

14. Building Box 0.9 – Initial Steps • Input can be redirected to enable shared applications Is processed here

15. Building Box 0.9 – Next Steps • Shared multi-scale applications • Notepad • Outliner • Sticky notes • Drawing • PowerPoint lite • IE • Excel lite

16. Your Own Box • Would you like one of these? • Questions?

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