Talk to your Displays - Position Paper for the Workshop "Ubiquitous Display Environments"

Ubiquitous computing spaces, which have displays generously embedded into the environment, allow interaction with graphical user interfaces in a much more casual manner than desktop computers, which tie the user a particular desk. But simply putting desktop applications on a ubiquitous display will not make their use casual. We propose applications that can roam among displays as well as to personal devices (PDAs, etc.). Applications may also use a combination of public and personal devices simultaneously for interaction. We especially focus on associating displays with speech-based personal devices. Such combinations can be used to present interaction in an effortless, casual, and multimodal manner