A card-handling tool for multimedia data

We studied the utilization of multimedia information for card-handling and implemented a prototype of a card-handling tool that can handle multimedia information. Cards are widely used as a tool to put information in order and manage it, and to put together documents efficiently. Ease of use is thought to be important in our card-handling tool, and users can handle information in a wide work area. We extended our card-handling tool so that it can handle image and sound data. Information arrangement through flexible thinking and effective information transfer can be achieved by writing pictures and graphs on cards and explaining charts aurally. Also, it proved effective for handling multimedia information that has hyperlink structure, like WWW. © 1997 Scripta Technica, Inc. Syst Comp Jpn, 28(9): 77–85, 1997