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PointRight: experience with flexible input redirection in interactive workspaces

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Terry Winograd,

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UIST '02: Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

Pages 227 - 234

https://doi.org/10.1145/571985.572019

Published: 27 October 2002 Publication History

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We describe the design of and experience with PointRight, a peer-to-peer pointer and keyboard redirection system that operates in multi-machine, multi-user environments. PointRight employs a geometric model for redirecting input across screens driven by multiple independent machines and operating systems. It was created for interactive workspaces that include large, shared displays and individual laptops, but is a general tool that supports many different configurations and modes of use. Although previous systems have provided for re-routing pointer and keyboard control, in this paper we present a more general and flexible system, along with an analysis of the types of re-binding that must be handled by any pointer redirection system This paper describes the system, the ways in which it has been used, and the lessons that have been learned from its use over the last two years.

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PointRight: experience with flexible input redirection in interactive workspaces
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
2. Theory of computation
  1. Models of computation
    1. Interactive computation

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