Enabling Natural Cross-Device Interaction in Personal Desktop Settings

Abstract

This work presents an easy to use approach for cross-device interaction using the scenario of having a laptop, desktop computer and mobile device co-located on a desk. A consistent user experience is created through enabling the use of any input device to interact with all co-located devices. The user can grab data from one device and move it to another one with the currently used input device. With this approach no manual setup of connections for data exchange is necessary. Instead this setup process is automated and invisible to the user.