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Use an optical tracking mechanism ( ie optical mouse sensor - or make a digital camera sensor do double duty ) to let the user view a larger virtual screen using a small PDa or cell phone display. It would be like my grandmother using her magnifying glass to read the newspaper ;) Lift to zoom out!
(?) Peephole displays
http://www.sims.berkeley.edu/~ping/peep/ Ka-Ping Yee's research [JKew, Oct 04 2004]
(?) DEC Itsy
http://www.eecs.har...burgen2001_Itsy.pdf The DEC Itsy uses tipping as a joystick-like control. [mannby, Oct 22 2004]
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baked. not optical, but there is a prototype PDA that allows you to move around a larger screen area by simply moving the PDA. |
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. . . using accelerometers. |
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Baked in research [link] although unfortunately the paper and videos have been removed pending publication and after a heavy slashdotting. |
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ISTR reading the paper when it was available and it described scrolling and zooming UIs very much as the idea here describes. |
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The above comments are WRT the DEC Itsy, I believe (see link). |
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The idea here is to combine actual motion of the device (not tipping it) with moving a virtual window over a larger virtual document. |
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