TY - GEN
T1 - Tracs
T2 - 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2014
AU - Lindlbauer, David
AU - Aoki, Toru
AU - Walter, Robert
AU - Uema, Yuji
AU - Höchtl, Anita
AU - Haller, Michael
AU - Inami, Masahiko
AU - Müller, Jörg
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
Copyright © 2014 ACM.
Copyright:
Copyright 2014 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2014/10/5
Y1 - 2014/10/5
N2 - We present Tracs, a dual-sided see-through display system with controllable transparency. Traditional displays are a constant visual and communication barrier, hindering fast and efficient collaboration of spatially close or facing coworkers. Transparent displays could potentially remove these barriers, but introduce new issues of personal privacy, screen content privacy and visual interference. We therefore propose a solution with controllable transparency to overcome these problems. Tracs consists of two see-through displays, with a transparency-control layer, a backlight layer and a polarization adjustment layer in-between. The trans-parencycontrol layer is built as a grid of individually addressable transparency-controlled patches, allowing users to control the transparency overall or just locally. Additionally, the locally switchable backlight layer improves the contrast of LCD screen content. Tracs allows users to switch between personal and collaborative work fast and easily and gives them full control of transparent regions on their display.
AB - We present Tracs, a dual-sided see-through display system with controllable transparency. Traditional displays are a constant visual and communication barrier, hindering fast and efficient collaboration of spatially close or facing coworkers. Transparent displays could potentially remove these barriers, but introduce new issues of personal privacy, screen content privacy and visual interference. We therefore propose a solution with controllable transparency to overcome these problems. Tracs consists of two see-through displays, with a transparency-control layer, a backlight layer and a polarization adjustment layer in-between. The trans-parencycontrol layer is built as a grid of individually addressable transparency-controlled patches, allowing users to control the transparency overall or just locally. Additionally, the locally switchable backlight layer improves the contrast of LCD screen content. Tracs allows users to switch between personal and collaborative work fast and easily and gives them full control of transparent regions on their display.
KW - Transparency-controlled display;
KW - Transparent display
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84912035378&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2642918.2647350
DO - 10.1145/2642918.2647350
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - UIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
SP - 657
EP - 662
BT - UIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Y2 - 5 October 2014 through 8 October 2014
ER -