Escritoire: a personal projected display

The face of personal computing with its desktop metaphor has remained largely unchanged since the release of the Xerox Star in 1979. We created a system called the Escritoire to explore the issues in making and using a display that is much more like a real desk - the everyday workspace that people use. Our system differs from the conventional interface in a number of ways: it provides much more space, supports the affordances that make paper so useful, uses input techniques different from those of the standard interface, and supports remote collaboration.