MilleFeuille toolkit
Overview
MilleFeuille is a toolkit sitting on top of the mural
graphical system. It provides the key element to implement a full
user interface system for the mural. It will also be well suited
for the interactive room environment. The purpose of the toolkit
and more generally the user interface is
- Study the design of a user interface well adapted to the
interactive mural. The mural is a large high resolution
display which uses a laser pointer, wireless mouse and
utrasonic pen tracking system as primar means of input.
- Explore design that limit the use of decoration in
graphical user interface. In particular we are exploring
the use of Action bar which have a very small graphical
footprint and can be composed in many different way to
create a system equivalent to the current GUI widgets,
- Provide the infrastructure necessaire to create
composable user interface. Composition include graphics
effect (transparency, magic lenses,...), data
aggregation, and interaction like a scalling tool,
- Explore when and how it is possible to separate
Visualization, Interaction and data. The goal here is to
provide a system in which the user can pick separately
way to see the data and way to interact with it. In the
case of the mural if several user work on the same large
piece of data such architecture will allow them to bring
along their preference independantly of each other
(Typical example are handwriting recognition and the
like).
Using MilleFeuille
Examples