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Spinning in control: design exploration of a cross-device remote

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You buy a new TV and get a new remote, you buy a DVD player and you get another remote, you buy a sound system and guess what& Almost every digital media product comes with its own designated remote control (RC). What would happen if one remote adapts to the owner's activities and is able to have cross-device control? In this paper we describe a design exploration conducted to create new ways to interact with digital media products. The main ingredients are: fit for a social setting, portable, and including physical interaction. The result is an exploration of a button less single-hand remote control concept.

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      TEI '11: Proceedings of the fifth international conference on Tangible, embedded, and embodied interaction
      January 2011
      470 pages
      ISBN:9781450304788
      DOI:10.1145/1935701

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