Tracs: Transparency control for see-through displays

David Lindlbauer; Toru Aoki; Robert Walter; Yuji Uema; Anita Höchtl; Michael Haller; Masahiko Inami; Jörg Müller

doi:10.1145/2642918.2647350

Tracs: Transparency control for see-through displays

David Lindlbauer, Toru Aoki, Robert Walter, Yuji Uema, Anita Höchtl, Michael Haller, Masahiko Inami, Jörg Müller

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	UIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	657-662
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450330695
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2642918.2647350
Publication status	Published - 2014 Oct 5
Externally published	Yes
Event	27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2014 - Honolulu, United States Duration: 2014 Oct 5 → 2014 Oct 8

Publication series

Name	UIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology

Other

Other	27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2014
Country/Territory	United States
City	Honolulu
Period	14/10/5 → 14/10/8

Keywords

Transparency-controlled display;
Transparent display

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction

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Lindlbauer, D., Aoki, T., Walter, R., Uema, Y., Höchtl, A., Haller, M., Inami, M., & Müller, J. (2014). Tracs: Transparency control for see-through displays. In UIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (pp. 657-662). (UIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/2642918.2647350

Tracs: Transparency control for see-through displays. / Lindlbauer, David; Aoki, Toru; Walter, Robert et al.
UIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Association for Computing Machinery, 2014. p. 657-662 (UIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology).

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution

Lindlbauer, D, Aoki, T, Walter, R, Uema, Y, Höchtl, A, Haller, M, Inami, M & Müller, J 2014, Tracs: Transparency control for see-through displays. in UIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. UIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 657-662, 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology, UIST 2014, Honolulu, United States, 14/10/5. https://doi.org/10.1145/2642918.2647350

Lindlbauer D, Aoki T, Walter R, Uema Y, Höchtl A, Haller M et al. Tracs: Transparency control for see-through displays. In UIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology. Association for Computing Machinery. 2014. p. 657-662. (UIST 2014 - Proceedings of the 27th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology). doi: 10.1145/2642918.2647350

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