UIST papers: "Annotating Gigapixel Images" and "Foldable Interactive Displays"

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Annotating Gigapixel Images:

This paper is basically about a group that has devised a way to go 

about and label these gigapixel images, which are extremely large 

images commonly used for geographic photos of the earth, label 

them with text or sound. The labels can denote regions, cities, 

or even something as small as a person and label that. Then it 

goes on to discuss how these labels should be displayed on the 

screen when panning and zooming. It details these equations for 

the different renderings in the paper.

Foldable Interactive Displays:

This paper was about a research team trying to come up with a way to
have cost effective and small space consuming displays. Essentially,
foldable projection screens that can move around. The title of the paper
is a little deceiving, you think it would be a kind of screen that you 

could fold up into your pocket and then take it out and use it anywhere. 

But this is just a projection screen that can fold up, you have to have 

a projector to put the images on it. Basically, the have 4 different types 

of foldable screens: a fan, an umbrella, a newspaper, and a scroll. And 

they put Rf emitters into these so that a projector could track where the 

screen was as you carry it around. You can also do things like flipping 

over your screen and the display acts accordingly by flipping your 

"paper" that your reading over. Also you can resize the screen, for 

instance, on the newspaper you can fold it up some and the display 

resizes accordingly. By adding additional LEDs into the display input 

devices can be used like a stylus to track user operations. Overall, this 

paper underwhelmed me because its seems very impractical to have 

projectors everywhere, and that's what it needs for this to even be 

useful. So the research seems pointless to me.