MultiPresenter: a presentation system for (very) large display surfaces

Joel Lanir, Kellogg S. Booth, and Anthony Tang. (2008). MultiPresenter: a presentation system for (very) large display surfaces. In MM ’08: Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Multimedia, ACM, 519–528.

Abstract

We introduce MultiPresenter, a novel presentation system designed to work on very large display spaces (multiple displays or physically large high-resolution displays). MultiPresenter allows presenters to organize and present pre-made and dynamic presentations that take advantage of a very large display space accessed from a personal laptop. Presenters can use the extra space to provide long-term persistency of information to the audience. Our design deliberately separates content generation (authoring) from the presentation of content. We focus on supporting presentation flow and a variety of presentation styles, ranging from automated, scripted sequences of pre-made slides to highly dynamic ad-hoc, and non-linear content. By providing smooth transition between these styles, presenters can easily alter the flow of content during a presentation to adapt to an audience or to change emphasis in response to emerging interests. We describe our goals, rationale and the design process, providing a detailed description of the current version of the system, and discuss our experience using it throughout a one-semester first year computer science course

Materials

PDF File (http://hcitang.org/papers/2008-mm2008-multipresenter-preprint.pdf)
DOI (http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1459359.1459428)

Keywords

High-resolution displays, Human-Centered Design, Multiple displays, Presentations

BibTeX

@inproceedings{lanir2008multipresenter,
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  author = {Lanir, Joel and Booth, Kellogg S. and Tang, Anthony},
  booktitle = {MM '08: Proceedings of the 16th ACM international conference on Multimedia},
  date-modified = {2014-01-17 05:00:32 +0000},
  doi = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1459359.1459428},
  isbn = {978-1-60558-303-7},
  keywords = {High-resolution displays, Human-Centered Design, Multiple displays,
      Presentations},
  location = {Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada},
  pages = {519--528},
  pdfurl = {http://hcitang.org/papers/2008-mm2008-multipresenter-preprint.pdf},
  publisher = {ACM},
  title = {MultiPresenter: a presentation system for (very) large display surfaces},
  type = {conference},
  year = {2008},
  bdsk-url-1 = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1459359.1459428}
}