Although the age of information appliances is around the corner, current remote control devices are too awkward, and we cannot use sophisticated equipments without using computer-like terminals. We propose a new simple input device called the FieldMouse, which enables us to perform flexible interaction with real-world objects. FieldMouse is a device which consists of an ID recognizer and a motion sensing device. Using a FieldMouse, various GUI tools like buttons, menus, sliders, and others can be used on any surface and objects, just like using a mouse on a desktop computer.
Users can control or program various information appliances as easily as using graphical terminals.
Toshiyuki Masui, Itiro Siio, and Kentaro Fukuchi. Paper GUI for Controlling Information Appliances.