Ligature:
 Gesture-based Configuration of the E21 Intelligent Environment
Mark A. Foltz
MIT AI Lab
July 16, 2001

The Intelligent Room

Ligature

Why Ligature?
Need for user customization of environment
Make current state visible
Single-stroke gestures to control
Consistent
Direct-manipulation
Saving and restoring preferences

Visualizing the state of the environment

Selection

Making a Connection

Making a Connection

Removing a Connection

Remembering configurations

Ligature              Metaglue

Ligature              Metaglue

Future Work
Devices with state
lights
Usability study
Projectors vs. displays: what’s the right ontology
Extend the connection metaphor
Moving information among services, applications, and workspaces