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SEE MORE: Improving the Usage of Large Display Environments

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Truly seamless tiled displays and stereoscopic large high-resolution displays are among the top research challenges in the area of large displays. In this paper we approach both topics by adding an additional projector to a tiled display scenario as well as to a stereoscopic environment. In both cases, we have developed new focus+context screen approaches: a multiple foci plus context metaphor in the tiled display setup and a 2D+3D focus+context metaphor in the stereoscopic scenario.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Nahum Gerson for his long time support, fruitful discussions, and constructive comments. We also thank all our study participants. This research has been funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) and DFG’s International Research Training Group 1131.

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    Achim Ebert, Hans Hagen, Torsten Bierz, Peter-Scott Olech & Sebastian Thelen

  2. German Research Center for Artificial Intelligence (DFKI), University of Kaiserslautern, D-67663, Kaiserslautern, Germany

    Matthias Deller & Daniel Steffen

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Ebert, A. et al. (2011). SEE MORE: Improving the Usage of Large Display Environments. In: Brunnett, G., Coquillart, S., Welch, G. (eds) Virtual Realities. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-99178-7_9

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