365 DAYS AMBIENT INTELLIGENCE IN HOMELAB - Philips Research

Ambient 05-05-2003 12:38 Pagina 22
Meaningful NAVIGATION
Gerard Hollemans, Philips Research
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Hypothesis: Navigating large databases
of digital content will be more enjoyable
if the content is consistently organized in
a filter structure
Concept: The MediaBrowser with
consistent navigation for any type of
content and any size of collection using
filtering
Results: Participants expressed that the
MediaBrowser navigation concept offers
strong user benefits for personal digital
content
The concept of the MediaBrowser aims, to
provide people with consistent
interaction for accessing and navigating
photos, music and video content. This
consistency extends not only over types of
content, but also over types of interaction
devices. In addition to content access and
navigation the MediaBrowser offers the user
functionality to bring content into the system,
to organize content, and to enjoy content.
The MediaBrowser enables users to navigate
their content collection. After selecting the
location and the type of content, e.g., audio,
video, or photos, the user can decide to use a
full overview of the content or to use filters to
reduce the list of content to that content that is
related to, e.g., holidays (for photos). Users can
set multiple filters at the same time to reduce a
(potentially very) long list to a browsable list.
To enable the use of filters in the interaction,
metadata needs to be available for the content.
Without the metadata the user will only get a
list of all albums that are available for the
selected content type. The metadata needs to
be provided either by the user or by automatic