Augmented pasting with indirect pointing

Copy-and-paste (or cut-and-paste) have been a representative metaphor of segmented data exchange between electrical documents in a personal computer. Computing environment is now spreading over life space. Data exchange between mobile phones, tablet devices, and home electric appliances is expected to be intuitive and copy-and-paste is one effective metaphor for such a purpose. In this case, copy-and-paste should be used across device boundaries through real space. In this paper, we focus on realizing `paste´ of copy-and-paste through real space. We call such an interface for pasting digital objects through real space as `augmented pasting´. As for the approaches of `augmented pasting´, there are direct pointing and indirect pointing. The latter is preferable because it needs fewer requirements on the environment, but it is anticipated to be less intuitive. We introduced prototype to explore the design space of augmented pasting and confirmed the disadvantage can be overcome by some visual effects and auxiliary mechanism.